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**Are you the copyright holder or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf?**

Yes, I am the copyright holder.

**Are you submitting a revised DMCA notice after GitHub Trust & Safety requested you make changes to your original notice?**

No

**Does your claim involve content on GitHub or npm.js?**

GitHub

**Please describe the nature of your copyright ownership or authorization to act on the owner's behalf.**

My name is [private] and I'm the the [private] of the foundation Root-Me.

**Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed. If possible, include a URL to where it is posted online.**

https://www.root-me.org/ : The foundation Root-Me is publishing/maintaining the portal root-me.org which is dedicated to information security learning through practical exercises. All those materials are under copyright, our legal information that users have to accept are available there :

https://www.root-me.org/?page=structure&inc=page-mentions_legales&lang=en

It is clearly forbidden (and penalized) to post exercise solution publicly. All those solutions use statement, code, URL, code of our exercises. We already propose to publish solution on our platform.

**What files should be taken down? Please provide URLs for each file, or if the entire repository, the repository’s URL.**

As we do not consider publishing solution as a student work or a simple mention. We found out that the Github user 'heygauri' have leaked Root-Me owned exercise:

https://github.com/heygauri/Root-me/

For example, you can find https://www.root-me.org/en/Challenges/Forensic/Command-Control-level-2 here: https://github.com/heygauri/Root-me/blob/master/Command%20%26%20Control%20-%20level%202 .
Another example is https://www.root-me.org/en/Challenges/Forensic/Logs-analysis-web-attack where the leak is available here https://github.com/heygauri/Root-me/blob/master/Logs%20analysis%20-%20web%20attack .
If you take a look at the repository, you will understand that the entire repository without exception contains Root-Me foundation properties that need to be deleted or at least made private.

According to your DMCA reporting guide.

**Do you claim to have any technological measures in place to control access to your copyrighted content? Please see our <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice#complaints-about-anti-circumvention-technology">Complaints about Anti-Circumvention Technology</a> if you are unsure.**

No

**<a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy#b-what-about-forks-or-whats-a-fork">Have you searched for any forks</a> of the allegedly infringing files or repositories? Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infringing and wish to have it taken down.**

Yes and no fork is referenced in the repository.

**Is the work licensed under an open source license?**

No

**What would be the best solution for the alleged infringement?**

Reported content must be removed

**Do you have the alleged infringer’s contact information? If so, please provide it.**

No

**I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above on the infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, or its agent, or the law.**

**I have taken <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/topics/22">fair use</a> into consideration.**

**I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.**

**I have read and understand GitHub's <a href="https://docs.github.com/articles/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice/">Guide to Submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice</a>.**

**So that we can get back to you, please provide either your telephone number or physical address.**

ROOT-ME PRO - [private]

**Please type your full legal name below to sign this request.**

[private]
