An anonymous individual has leaked parts of Twitter’s source code on GitHub, the Microsoft-owned open-source development platform, according to The New York Times.
Twitter requested a subpoena from the US District Court in the Northern District of California on Friday, March 24, to ask that GitHub reveal who shared the code as well as other users who downloaded the intellectual property, the filing stated.
Friday, Twitter submitted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) request to GitHub notifying the service of the copyright infringement. Passed in 1998, the DMCA established a notice-and-takedown system for copyright owners to…