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Equally, then, couldn't another author fork the code and distribute it under a new name, with the offending test removed and a blameless README that says "please don't use my cool code for copyright infringement"?

It sounds like you're saying the problem is with the original authors, not the code itself, so taking down the code seems like the wrong approach for the RIAA.



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