Why? GitHub didn't do anything wrong. They took this down because they were required to by law. It would have been the same story with anyone else.
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Github is part of the RIAA via Microsoft. That is something wrong.
Breaking copy protection is only illegal if you do not have a license to the work. Removing the protection breaking code isn't necessary, and everyone needs to stop pretending that it is.
This same clause of the DMCA is the suspected reason for py-kms's reinstatement after a takedown: it's perfectly legal to break the Windows license scheme if you already own a license to Windows.
This is not my understanding of the DMCA. Can you back this up?
What I meant is that they would rather do a self-hosting (Gitea, etc.) instead of using another platform to have ore control.
Moreover, my statement was more of a speculation rather than an advice :-D
If you self-hosted, they could have just gone for your ISP or colocation provider.