Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice

An anonymous reader writes Qualcomm has forced GitHub to remove over 100 repositories due to "unauthorized publication, disclosure, and copying of highly sensitive, confidential, trade secret, and copyright-protected documents." Among the repositories taken down were for CyanogenMod and Sony Xperia. The issue though is that these "highly sensitive" and "confidential" files are Linux kernel code and reference/sample code files that can be easily found elsewhere, including the Android kernel, but GitHub has complied with Qualcomm's DMCA request.

I gotta ask

[Opportunist]

Is it still not legal to shoot copyright trolls on sight?

And if not, WHY THE HELL NOT?

Re:Land of the Eunuch

[Anonymous Coward]

Land of the fee, home of the slave.