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Dear Sirs:
We represent Iconology Inc. (the “Company”), which operates the website comixology.com, an online platform for purchasing digital comic books (“Comixology”). It has come to the Company’s attention that numerous posts on your website are offering to the public technology to the circumvent access controls to copyrighted materials in violation of 17 U.S.C. 1201. Several of these posts also include screenshots of copyrighted images, or the Company’s proprietary code. By hosting such content, GitHub is violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, inducing and engaging in copyright infringement, and aiding and abetting violations of state and federal criminal computer access laws. We therefore demand that GitHub immediately remove the content located at the following links, for the reasons described below: https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/ - This is the main Github project that all the branched, and forked versions build from. This project contains information and tools for how to circumvent access controls. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/blob/html5/comixology.js – This file is an entire copy of the Company’s copyrighted code. All of these branches derive from the main comixology-backup project and are all differing versions that allow users to circumvent access controls: https://github.com/shinji257/comixology-backup https://github.com/vgrigoriu/comixology-backup https://github.com/ImTheBrainz/comixology-backup https://github.com/MistarMuffin/comixology-backup https://github.com/tomchiverton/comixology-backup https://github.com/gtank/comixology-backup https://github.com/Cortys/comixology-backup https://github.com/tomchiverton/comixology-backup https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23 - This is the main thread that has continually posted copyrighted content without authorization. All the following links are posts from this thread: https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issue-26612815 – This post contains the following two image links which are copies of copyrighted content from comixology.com without authorization: https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/606b042f05308a282adf6d09a3a89bb45951a30f/687474703a2f2f6a74622e6d652f546565562f707265762e706e67 https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/2f511837f3b7f5e0cbe202b485ac3153f0400b40/687474703a2f2f6a74622e6d652f546556522f707265762e706e67 https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issuecomment-37380645 – This post includes copyright code without authorization. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issuecomment-37755618 – This post demonstrates a fork of the main project that enables the circumvention of access controls to copyrighted information. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#ref-pullrequest-30254000 – This post enables the circumvention of access controls to copyrighted information. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issuecomment-38820091 – This post references a patch to the project that enables the circumvention of access controls to copyrighted information. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issuecomment-38834657 – This post links to an unauthorized copy of the Company’s copyrighted code. https://github.com/sperglord-enterprises/comixology-backup/issues/23#issuecomment-38839783 – This post is a copy of a portion of the Company’s copyrighted code.
You may contact me concerning this matter at 1301 Avenue of the Americas, 40th Floor, New York, NY 10019, [private] (phone), [private] (fax), or by email to [private].
I have a good faith belief that the conduct described above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law. Among other things, such conduct enables circumvention of effective access controls and/or copyright infringement prevention measures. I swear under penalty of perjury, that to the best of my knowledge information and belief the information in this notification is accurate and that I am authorized to act on behalf of the Company with respect to this matter.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
Very truly yours,
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