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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by bleepblorp on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:23PM (#24910837)
Github hosting is not the be all and end all of open source software development. There are alternatives, ranging from hosting on one of the Chinese public clouds, using 'bulletproof' hosts that cater to such things as phishing groups, cutting a deal with the Russian mob to host development in Russia, hosting on an .onion site, or making connections with the Pirate Bay folks.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by edgarvaldes on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:26PM (#24910867)
So the alternatives are groups associated with authoritarian regimes, pishing groups and mobs?
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by userbinator on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:30PM (#24910896)
"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

This isn't all that different from the fact that sites which prominently support free speech attract all the extremists, because that's the only place they have.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by craftinator on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:55PM (#24911123)
Hah I came to post with that quote in mind. But really, if the legal system is abused to remove tools that are legal but the rich and powerful don't like, they'll migrate to places where the law can't touch them.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by kmeisthax on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:05PM (#24911222)
Git can be cloned via HTTP and it's so easy to set up that people have accidentally done it. There are loads of web shops that accidentally disclosed source code by way of having their Git deploy repo in their Apache webroot. You could literally "git clone http://poorsuckersblog.com/" and get everything.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by Shared404 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:21PM (#24913965)
That domain appears to be unregistered, don't know if anyone is looking for a good domain -- if so, you may have found it.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by calvinmorrison on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:51PM (#24911083)
or just literally host a web page yourself with a link to a git repo, also on your server. All this centralization of git is silly
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by rakoo on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:06PM (#24911899)
That's because the whole point of github is not hosting, it's the collaboration. This is where centralization helps.
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by hsbauauvhabzb on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @05:48PM (#24912321)
I would certainly think twice about contributing to YouTube-dl for my legal safety now...
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