Anthropic's DMCA effort to remove leaked Claude Code source code from GitHub accidentally swept up ~8,100 legitimate forks of its official public repository. GitHub expanded the takedown far beyond the 96 URLs specifically listed, angering developers who had forked Anthropic's own public repo. Anthropic has since asked GitHub to reverse the overbroad removals and restrict the takedown to the originally listed repositories.
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Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
Anthropic's DMCA takedown targeting leaked Claude Code accidentally removed 8,100 legitimate public forks from GitHub when the platform over-applied 96 specified URLs, forcing a reversal request.
Friday, April 3, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Ars TechnicaBY sys://pipeline
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