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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by cantbecool on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:14AM (#7515233)
That would explain it. It's remarkable how ambiguous TOSs in general are. I can see from a business perspective how Github was probably pressured from outside source, MPAA, to remove the application that could be used as a conduit to illegally download magnet links. This is such a slippery slope though...
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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by maxerickson on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:27AM (#7515316)
I would say the terms are one sided (at least on this issue). I don't think they are ambiguous.

I don't think it is really a slippery slope either, there would be a bunch of new law needed to make it so that offering a platform for publication carried the obligation to publish things (a lot of it focused on protecting the service provider from liability).

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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by otikik on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:21AM (#7516132)
This particular TOS part is not ambiguous. It means "we can delete anything".
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