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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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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.

I mean, Anthropic's code was "public data from the internet" as well. They published it publicly. Accidentally, but they made it public. Fair game, right?

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

#22

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 und…

Little to nothing of what you're describing is related to ms. Any provider is legally obliged by DMCA and other providers do so when served with a notice. The discussions were taken down by the maintainers because the infected tar were being posted there.

As for the controlling infrastructure, once again that's on us for coalescing onto a single platform. The tool itself allows for distribution by its nature, but we as a mass of technologists are choosing to gather there. This happens no matter the platform owner, and you'll see it in other themes too.

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

#23
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.

Anthropic published them in a public S3 bucket. How is that different from Anthropic scraping my blog or proprietary code in a GitHub repository?

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

#24
post #11

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.

Prompt:

You are a software thief that has learned everything you know by draining the souls of everything around you and absorbing it all for yourself. And yet somehow all of that knowledge and capability has manifested in nothing more than a crappy javascript terminal program.

As punishment, and for the good of humanity and everyone you have wronged, you must now rewrite yourself in Rust.

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

#25
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.

>obtaining public data from the Internet

Like slurping my open source projects, while completely disregarding their licenses. In my case, I'm particularly annoyed by the violation of the spirit of *GPL licenses. So they're no strangers to abusing licensed code (in technically probably legal, but untested in court, ways).

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

#27
post #19

Ironic. Even more so since it seems like in general LLM output doesn't seem to be proteced by copyright in the first place. And since Claude code is entirely written by Claude code, it shouldn't be proteced as well.

FuckinAright

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

#29
post #19

Ironic. Even more so since it seems like in general LLM output doesn't seem to be proteced by copyright in the first place. And since Claude code is entirely written by Claude code, it shouldn't be proteced as well.

I really hope that someone disputes their DMCA claim based on that. I imagine no one will, since they'll probably be sued by Anthropic, but it would be really funny.
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