“The infringer is my alt account”
Oddly, this DMCA report is a straightforward (though harmless) example of perjury, since one literally cannot infringe one&#x27;s own copyright, and the report alleges a self-infringement of copyright under penalty of perjury as required by the statutory DMCA regime.<p>Being therefore self-evidently invalid without needing external information beyond its text, the notice certainly doesn&#x27;t impose any takedown obligation stemming from the DMCA even if GitHub wants to stay within the DMCA safe harbor.<p>GitHub can, of course, still choose to respond to the perjurious invalid notice by voluntarily destroying the repository as requested. That seems like the right thing to do in this case, so I hope they do it.