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RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub

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Re: RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

Qwertious wrote: post #190
MaxBarraclough wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If issues, wiki and code review were integrated in git proper it would be trivial to change host on a dime. It would also constrain the various competing solutions to all conform to the git standard.

"It would also constrain the various competing solutions to all conform to the git standard. " That's already more-or-less the case. Gitlab refuses to add Hg support because they pretty much hardcoded their platform around Git and don't want to abstract that away. Github doesn't support Hg. And in August, Bitbucket permanently disabled their Hg support too. Personally, I want to see Git die. But you're talking about…

I wasn't talking about support for version-control systems other than git. I was talking about the way GitHub, GitLab, and SourceHut, can all offer different bug-reporting/wiki features. These features aren't predetermined by the git standard, and that's a good thing.

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Post by DrSiemer »

karlzt wrote: post #17
verroq wrote: post #2

Any reason why youtube-dl hasn't filed a counter-takedown notice?

Github is just one bottle in a room full of bottles https://alternativeto.net/software/github/

Sure, but it's the most famous bottle, also among people that never use bottles

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Post by pankajdoharey »

alfalfasprout wrote: post #159
pankajdoharey wrote: post #115

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Can someone explain what is so hard here to go ahead and host your own Git repository? I mean how hard is it to run git instaweb --httpd=webrick Also there are tons of options GNU Savannah, Gogs,Gitea , Git Bucket ...

Github offers far more than a git repo. PR reviews, issues, etc. are important for many projects. Linux gets by with LKML but that's a nonstarter for most people now.

Linux kernel manages themselves pretty much without github.

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Post by [deleted] »

jhomedall wrote: post #176
sebastien_b wrote: post #173

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Show on the list where youtube-dl has been proven illegal. Implying criminality because you're participating on something "of dubious legality" defined nebulously ("guilt by association") wouldn't play well.

As per the post you are replying to, choice of programming project is, unlike race and religion, not a protected class. It is perfectly legal in the US for a company to discriminate based on it. A company could also freely and legally discriminate based on whether or not you prefer whole-wheat bread. That's not a protected class. It doesn't matter that whole-wheat bread is legal.

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Post by sebastien_b »

johnny_b_g wrote: post #184
jhomedall wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As per the post you are replying to, choice of programming project is, unlike race and religion, not a protected class. It is perfectly legal in the US for a company to discriminate based on it. A company could also freely and legally discriminate based on whether or not you prefer whole-wheat bread. That's not a protected class. It doesn't matter that whole-wheat bread is legal.

I think you guys are conflating this with what the poster is getting at, which based on what was said ( "implying criminality" ), is more akin to defamation (though admittedly the choice of earlier examples is poor). If, as an employer, I decide that because you chose a specific project ( or political party, or brand of motor bike, etc. anything whose association has potential 'dubious legal status') that you're part…

Johnny gets it

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Post by [deleted] »

bxk1 wrote: post #86
cesarb wrote: post #15

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Copy-pasting a comment of mine from a related thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886260 ): They might decide not to counter-notice, because there's a big trap in the DMCA counter-notice: as far as I know, for a DMCA counter-notice to be valid, the one doing the counter-notice must agree to be bound to the jurisdiction of an USA court. If the youtube-dl author is not from the USA (I think he's from the EU…

People outside of the US can't be bound to be sued in a US court or anywhere outside of the jurisdiction they currently reside in and even then a country he is a citizen of could try to use high level channels to get him out of there. Extradition treaties complicate this a bit more, but extradition still has to go through local laws, local law enforcement, local government and far from everyone would get extradited l…

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