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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**

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

Information still wants to be free

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

#32
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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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.

There’s this thing about trade secrets that like all secrets, they stop being secret the instant they’re leaked. You can’t DMCA third parties for distributing your trade secrets. The only one you can sue is the party that was contractually bound not to leak them and then did anyway. Now, copyright is a different thing.

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

#34

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

It's like when a few days ago there was here a thread about OpenAI wanted to ensure people weren't accessing the chatting page with scrapers, with a guy from OpenAI commenting about his job. The irony was lost

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

#35
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Try asking Gemini information from workshop manuals that are not publicly available. It will pretty much tell you everything you want to know, but it will refuse to tell where it got the information.

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

#36
post #14
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Remember Google’s book scanning project?

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

#37
post #8

What's the point? Anthropic can simply play it cool and, I don't know, open source the thing? It is not like claude code is that complex and interesting. Sure there are some questionable stuff in there but it is not that controversial.

The most controversial part is that they wrote a TUI in ReactJS, but they don't try to keep that part secret, they brag about it. :^)

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

#38
post #24
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

#40
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.

There's no way it was entirely written by Claude Code. But even if it were, collections and databases can be protected even if their individual elements are not.
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