Protecting two years of unpaid technical labor is not "petty" or "nasty"—it is basic self-defense.
Derry was not "false DMCA'd." Itch.io's legal team reviewed the evidence and removed the game because Derry commercially distributed stolen software after explicitly promising me in writing that he would not use my code.
Before offering pity to someone who exploited two years of labor and committed copyright theft, read the actual evidence: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N06_CyZI5wnAK2AK_HuWnCA_K436AzDo?usp=sha...