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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Santosh83 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:23AM (#24886077)
Yes, GitLab is US, and just one more DMCA notice away from another "takedown"... its time the Internet community looked into other legal jurisdictions that don't have to bend to such rules. How does it matter where the bits come from exactly?

This is supposed to be the whole point of the Internet but somehow people are behaving as if the end of the US-hosted GitHub repo is the end of everything!

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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by xtracto on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:11AM (#24886402)
Enough of legal jurisdictions. That's why distributed / p2p technology exist. It should be possible to have a distributed version of github.
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by Santosh83 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:19AM (#24886466)
While it is a long-term solution, as far as I can see, there is no immediate, P2P solution comparable to GitHub available today, while code-hosting solutions that can be spun up on non-US servers or SaaS products are available for use right now.
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by jhgb on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:24AM (#24886510)
Without the hub, we could call it just "Git" or something like that.
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Re:Youtube-dl GitHub Template by yellowapple on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:07PM (#24887299)
And indeed, I can't think of anything in particular that'd be stopping someone from putting git repos on e.g. IPFS.
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