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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I bunch of people have forked the projects on GitHub and changed the README.

https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/network
https://github.com/thempc/hon/commit/f4169cce29fb5a5d669cad627fd6d66e681a5896
https://github.com/fbanwjdmzoasjdn/hoe/commit/70835712ec71086996d47a22b509629ab14c12dd
https://github.com/RearDoor/hon/commit/db2776b1ce3b86aa3ff1e63ebe34999e2df88800
https://github.com/EvilGremlin/hon/commit/263084b46829e00361a26b7cb186303e17128684
https://github.com/abc123me/hon/commit/b4186ad014d73566019cca3ba7422cb09cde5ec9
https://github.com/mon5termatt/hon/commit/5b40cf6947c95c1ea9b0c5b214be0520c32f829a
https://github.com/cathalferris/fuck_you_haier/commit/d896e02bb6d4b188192a7c60fb7e2f6b17c0a14c

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The mistake is forking and hosting it on GitHub. If Haier sends GitHub a DMCA takedown notice, they will comply, and the forks will be deleted too. Use other hosting services for redundancy and keep a local copy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Might put it on torrents as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think there's a copyright component to this. DMCA isn't on the table

Haier were implying that they might sue if the developer didn't take it down

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good point. Nothing in the article explicitly states that it's a copyright claim, but they do mention "protecting... [their] intellectual property". In any case, it's always easier for the website host to fold to cover their own asses than to continue hosting the content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The letter from haier says it is a beach of TOS. It's directly a "take it down or we'll delete your account" letter

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Awesome! This is why I love the Lemmy community.