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GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

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Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

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Anthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**

I wonder if they DMCA the versions re-implemented from the leaked code using their own tool.

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

#12
post #6

Copyright for me but not for thee

This is GitHub being overzealous/getting it wrong, or some miscommunication somewhere. These are forks of Anthropic's open source repo on GitHub, CEO said previously it's not them DMCAing forks of it.

Edit: sorry, not CEO, Boris Cherny (CC head): https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039426466094731289

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

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post #10

Anthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**

You are comparing Anthropic obtaining public data from the Internet to Anthropic leaking their trade secrets and having them distributed by third parties.

Not just public data.

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

#15
This is why we can't have nice things.

Also we need an alternative to Microsoft controlling all that things ultimately via proxy-control. They can just take down everything at will.

I remember back when the xz util backdoor was found, there was some interesting discussion on the github issue tracker. I also participated.

When I then looked the next day, the repository - AND the discussions - were taken down. I do understand to some extent that the code was taken down (even then I disagree, mind you; but I understand the rationale to some extent), but Microsoft also eliminated aka closed the discussions, which was to me censorship. I don't 100% remember whether the old discussions returned or not - from memory they were not returned, but perhaps the new owner decided to do so. Either way I then realised that it is really a big mistake to let greedy mega-corporations control infrastructure. We also see this right now with AI companies driving up RAM prices. We have to pay more for these gangster organisations.

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

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Anthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**

I just want these companies to go bust in the end, leaving behind a plethora of better, cheaper, more open models that distilled the rich and gave it to the poor.

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

#17
post #10

Anthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**

You are comparing Anthropic obtaining public data from the Internet to Anthropic leaking their trade secrets and having them distributed by third parties.

C’mon bro. It isn’t like all AI companies haven’t pirated all research papers, books, magazines, and pay walled content on the Internet.

Either you are being naive AF or you are actively trying to spread discontent. I hope it is the former.

Re: GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo

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post #10

Anthropic when they scrape the entire internet without permission: I sleep Anthropic when their own source code ends up on GitHub: Real s**

You are comparing Anthropic obtaining public data from the Internet to Anthropic leaking their trade secrets and having them distributed by third parties.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-to-pay-1point5-bil...
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