The maintainer of gallery-dl received a DMCA §1201 anti-circumvention takedown notice from FAKKU, LLC targeting several extractors (including nhentai.py and exhentai.py) along with 28 other repositories. The maintainer initially decided to comply and remove the listed files by rewriting git history, but later reconsidered after community feedback. Community members criticized the DMCA as abusive and legally weak, suggested migrating to Codeberg, and recommended contacting the EFF. The thread documents the ongoing drama around copyright enforcement targeting open source download tools.
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