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		sgift on June 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources Maybe, but if I have to guess differently than you think: They probably want to use this to "troll" governments and heavy users of DMCA take-down notices. These people usually don't like it if users notice that they were responsible, so this is against their interests. Reminds me of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048828

delinka on June 12, 2012 [–]

I think it's a fabulous idea. Request and item that been the subject of a takedown notice, receive the details of who produced the takedown.

wmf on June 12, 2012 | [–]

Google sort of does that, although you have to go to Chilling Effects and look up the takedown.

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