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This is an area where GitLab could have a huge advantage. If they had really good support for mirroring projects between instances then running your own private instance for control while mirroring to GitLab.com for scale / convenience would make a lot of sense. Of course I’m sure that would go into the super mega platinum “we’re only charging 1/5 of the real value” BS tier or whatever they’re pushing these days.
Gitlab is apparently a US based company. Unlikely that they would be more courages than Github.
Given youtube-dl is not copyrighted material the RIAA would have in its mandate, that it replicates functionality that every browser already has, and GitHub is a property of MSFT - this is basically a legal harassment play that implies we're going to need more than decentralized repositories. I'm thinking something like Kali Linux but one that tags certain code repositories as politically exposed and then mirrors them into a distribution via torrents.
Is it not the right time to decentralise those type of services? I think it is. Isn't this site owned by Microsoft? So if it is, this is normal big corporation behaviour. They embrace open-source community to gain advantage. Is there a way to host code without being dependent on big corporation? I am really interested in the answer of this question. Public programming code must be treated like public utility. For exa…
No. This is you and others being completely oblivious to law. DMCA is US law AND the US has trade agreements with other countries to similarly enforce US IP law.
It does not matter if it's Microsoft or a small startup. Either they comply with DMCA or the RIAA (and others) can sue for millions in damages.
Take issue with the law and push your elected officials to change them.
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I am sorry...but what would the RIAA troll Github for exactly?
Sorry if it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. The RIAA can now call Github out whenever they have an argument for them enabling downloads of copyrighted content through their repositories. And Github is expected to fix it for them.
I think some people are missing a major point about youtube-dl's takedown. The purpose of this DMCA claim wasn't just to prevent people from downloading videos, it was to set a legal precedent for the RIAA and similar organizations to troll Github and anyone hosting public repositories with it, by linking them to "illegal downloads". By agreeing to this without any public opposition, Github has become similar to Yout…
Some example comments in this thread: >"People should move their youbube-dl repositories to servers hosted in Switzerland, " >"Time for a decentralized version control system?" >"The nice thing about fossil" ... those well-meaning suggestions are missing the true difficulty : The community wants a (1) Schelling Point [0] for workflow/issues/discussions/PRs that's also (2) censorship resistant. So far, (1) and (2) con…
Why would some brunching lawyer know what yt-dl even was unless someone who hired them was making a political play against it? Given youtube-dl is not copyrighted material the RIAA would have in its mandate, that it replicates functionality that every browser already has, and GitHub is a property of MSFT - this is basically a legal harassment play that implies we're going to need more than decentralized repositories.…
Sometimes I feel we web devs behave worse than fashion industry when it comes to blindly following random trends, making it all religious instead of logical and messing up all innovation
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The cynical might note that somehow software development happened before modern version control systems, much less GitHub, even existed.
Not as public open source in such a wide scale and availability as today
Linux has been for 29 years.