I can't believe Github processed this incredibly spurious DMCA request that didn't even detail what was being infringed beyond some vague "anti-circumvention technology". Plus it checks for archived and cached versions of an article so that somehow makes it circumvention?!<p>The author has already been kicked off Gitlab, so I'm not sure where else realistically they can go that wouldn't fold to copyright holders. Sourceforge? Launchpad? It's almost like it needs to be self hosted on IPFS or published on Bittorrent.<p>They haven't posted any updates on Twitter yet, but this is it:
<a href="https://x.com/Magnolia1234B" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/Magnolia1234B</a>
DMCA is a weapon abused by corporations. These laws are written solely for corporations.<p>What I do an end-user is my discretion; if I want to remove or alter data sent to my endpoint, I should be able to without some corporation dictating what can be done.<p>Everything on the web needs decentralisation as we're nearing some sort of dystopia where corporations dictate how we live. Git itself it decentralised, but the hosting of files shouldn't be so easily removed.
I'm curious how much time it will take for most FLOSS devs to understand that relaying on third party giant code hosting instead of put back usenet (it's cheap enough) to have visibility and keep the code REALLY distributed and REALLY developed in a distributed workflow...<p>We have witnessed various GH and co bans for USA orders, often for no reasons (like a Belarus game dev who have nothing to do with foreign gov or intelligence, a USA citizen who have been in Iran for a little time and so on), DMCA and so on. It's astonishing how many develop FLOSS without understanding such basic consideration on depending on third parties opposing the classic "ah, I'm here only for visibility" and than start using PR, CI, ... not even understanding the threat of that and the scale effect.
The publishers are fully aware their website paywalls are bypassable in order for the content to be indexed by search engines. Why are they not held responsible for this choice? If they truely wanted a paywall they could implement one but they want their cake and eat it too.<p>thanks to our glorious intellectual property laws protecting the rich and punishing the poor.