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They have no case, tachiyomi is nothing but a glorified web browser, if they wanted to go after someone they need to go after the aggregators. I wonder if they just tested the waters with the take down notice of the previous list of extensions and are now subsequently pushing it further since they saw the tachiyomi team folded to their demands.
I suspect that is exactly what is happening. They saw initial success for essentially the price of a cease and desist letter. Why not keep pushing? It will be interesting if they actually file dmca claims against github repos and make github decide a course of action.
GitHub hosts Nintendo emulators, and Nintendo is insanely litigious and has a much better argument than these dumb fucks pretending they can take down a reader because piracy exists.
They'll follow the DMCA takedown process. They're required to. But they're not going to pull a YouTube and go way beyond their legal obligations to pacify big IP holders.
Yeah, it's something many people predicted as soon as news of removing extensions came out. I don't know about the main Tachiyomi team but I hope at least some of the affected contributors decides to defend themselves - otherwise we'll see more frivolous lawsuits like this.
It sets precedence
If you can't do the time don't do the crime
You a bot or something? What crime?