Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the original

SO Microsoft GitHub and Google YouTube removed source code and video for DOOM running on an IKEA smart lamp due to DMCA take down.

At the time of this writing, the Internet Archive has the directory layout, but not the source code, from the GitHub repo.

"Then again, IKEA is known for sending legal nastygrams."It is unclear who demanded the takedown, but it may have been Microsoft themselves, as they own id Software now.

Since the DOOM engine is under the GPL and IKEA really can’t stop people who buy a smart lamp from hacking on it when they get it home using a DMCA take down against someone telling them how to do that, Microsoft is the likely suspect. The Shareware Doom levels were redistributable, they had to be modified in order to run on the IKEA smart lamp, which gives Microsoft attorneys an opening to make DMCA claims against the software.

Then again, IKEA is known for sending legal nastygrams.

Regardless of who the bully is this time (the author, “next-hack” was unclear), this is the threat we face with Big Tech like Microsoft and their Web of DRM and DMCA. Nothing is permanent. Nothing can be trusted,. The infrastructure is tainted and must be replaced.

I did find a clone repo where you can click code and then download as ZIP.

Since it too is on GitHub, I don’t know how much longer it will be available. ⬆