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Claude Code proprietary source leak via npm and DMCA takedowns

April 3, 2026Charly Wargnier, Prajwal Tomar, Rohan Paul

Multiple posts describe Claude Code leaking via npm, rapid community reverse-engineering, and Anthropic issuing DMCA notices that removed thousands of GitHub repos, with debate over collateral damage and process failures.

Claude Codes proprietary source leaked via npm.
Anthropic filed a DMCA to kill 8,100 GitHub repos.
So yesterday's massive Anthropic source-code leak was a process bug, a human error.
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