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lowboy on Feb 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clien...

How does an security PoC and API library fall under the DMCA? See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273662

From what I recall, the DMCA is about copyright and trademark infringement.

eli on Feb 20, 2014 [–]

The DMCA is also about "anti-circumvention". It makes it illegal to remove DRM that protects copyrighted content, or to create tools that do so.

That said, this takedown looks pretty bogus to my (untrained) eye.

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