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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by khun533 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:35AM (#23076839)
This is why you should never host your open source project on a US server. You're one DMCA notice away from being destroyed, needing a lawyer to counter claim properly, etc. This is insanity.

Git hosted in Europe:

https://codeberg.org/

Anyone know other git hosts outside the US? pls reply

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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by lazyjones on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:02AM (#23078295)
Perhaps you're right, but perhaps DMCA takedowns are a preferred alternative to what the MPAA does in other situations, like the Kim Dotcom raid in NZ.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by crankylinuxuser on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:16AM (#23080910)
Other areas that could be used would be like Tor and IPFS.

Tor is anti-censorship but can be a SPOF.

IPFS provides full identity of machine to the network (internal and external IPs), but is highly redundant and resistant to single attacks.

And IPFS refuses to mainline work for Tor/I2P... So it still spits out every adapter to the world. Yes, even your internal non-routable addresses.

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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by i_d_rather_read on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:49PM (#23082027)
> This is why you should never host your open source project on a US server. You're one DMCA notice away from being destroyed, needing a lawyer to counter claim properly, etc.

This is an excellent takeaway that should be upvoted.

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