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Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by mr_toad on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:04AM (#24877088)
> What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active and make DMCA takedowns ineffective.

But decentralisation would also make it harder to verify the code is legitimate.

Would you trust a copy of something like this from an anonymous server?

Re:YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA by gitgud on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:44AM (#24877630)
Well, git commits can be signed by they're authors, verifying authenticity.

This would prove if malicious commits have been added to a mirrored repository.