How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub

Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by DarkWiiPlayer on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:23AM (#24977258)

If you distribute a number that represents something you're not allowed to distribute, without announcing this connection, you're not really making that secret information available to anyone. There's no loophole there.

You need to somehow include information on how to use the number, which is arguably easier to pull off, but still doesn't make it legal, just harder to find out.

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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by feanaro on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:27AM (#24978245)

How about if we first standardize a universal, generic encoding scheme which produces numbers? Then if you saw a random number somewhere, you'd know to simply try decoding it with this scheme to see whether it succeeds.

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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by lifthrasiir on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:56AM (#24978801)

I didn't mean that a mere dissemination of numbers is illegal; rather, RIAA will try to make illegal and will penalize (not yet illegal) dissemination for any means possible exactly because of that. This has a huge implication both for who don't want get in trouble and for who want do the illegal thing.

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