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TxzK@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
cmhe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for “circumventing copy protection”, or “hacking”.
So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.
zeropublix@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Also has the highest rate of website take-downs/bans. To be fair: mostly revenge “naked pictures of my ex” websites. But yeah. Piracy + Germany = not good. You’d rather turn to the Netherlands for that.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
ActivityPub is amazing for censorship because anything that gets posted to one instance gets immediately archived thousands of times over.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
The project is now being made available via a repo on cdm-project.com but how long that’s likely to last is unclear.
Please streisand it.
NGnius@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I’ve mirrored it to my own git server too git.ngram.ca/mirrors/cdrm-project I will ignore DCMAs because I (and the server) don’t live in the USA.
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Canada might start ignoring DMCA as a whole if the idiots in my government keep harassing them. Maybe that’ll piss off Hollywood and friends in a useful way…
(Just ignore me laugh weeping at the prospect that billionaires stabbing each other in the back is the only thing I can look forward to in my country now)
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
sent a complaint
project has been ejected
Bad pattern.
The moment when GitHub was bought by M$, the risk of such behavior started.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
To GitHub’s credit, when rightsholders allege violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions, GitHub conducts its own assessment. If there is no basis for a claim, GitHub sometimes finds other copyright-related grounds, but here there is no pushback. That’s usually a sign of a complaint that stands up under intense scrutiny.
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There needs to be a widespread p2p solution for opensource projects before its too late. I have lost count of all the amazing stuff that has been gravity bombed from orbit.
There also needs to be a way for authors to submit things anonymously too and maybe sign their things with cryptographic keys to ID it. How many times has a company had a court order someone to cease and desist or simple acquire somebody’s work?
solrize@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
p2p solution for opensource projects
That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Right? Git is literally decentralized. If you choose to use GitHub as a centralized Git service, that’s on you.
(I will caveat this by saying we moved 2009scape off GitHub and the number of new contributors probably got cut in half)
Womble@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Git is, but it has no process of discovery or hosting by itself. Those are needed to efficiently share open source software to large numbers of people.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You’d think Usenet is dead.
It’s not.WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
git is clearly not p2p in the needed level or else we wouldn’t have faced this problem
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I2p has a git service
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I found radicle.xyz but I’ve never used this technology before. Maybe someone can shed some light?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
vividspecter@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s not always takedowns either, just the developer deciding to nuke their own repos. Real annoying, although it’s making me more vigilant about forking/mirroring important repos.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All you need for this is a global overlay network and a global DNS untied from physical infrastructure. Cryptographic identities (hash of pubkey will do) instead of IP addresses (because NATs are PITA and too many people use mobile devices behind big bad NATs), and finding (in something like Kademlia) records signed by authority you yourself chose to trust instead of asking DNS.
Then come encryption and dynamic routing and synchronization of published states.
One can have some kind of Kademlia for discovery of projects too, but on the next level.
I2P comes close, but it’s more focused on anonymity.
OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.
yeah it seems you forgot what you wanted to say midway.
to extend on it, I2P, Tor and other mixnets provide the only safe way currently to host projects that others don’t like, because such sites cannot be taken down. that’s both a blessing and a curse
doodledup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Open-source projects are quiet safe on Github. Maybe don’t push illegal code? Seems pretty obvious to me.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Do you forget who determines what is illegal?
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I was wondering why these types of open source projects always push to Github, despite the latter always complying with DMCA. (I get that Github provides discoverabilty features, but it just isn’t worth it to have all your work taken down).
On a similar note, has anyone tried out radicle.xyz? It’s supposed to actually make use of git’s peer to peer nature (and not the client server model that everyone adopts with git) and ideally provide discoverability features.
The said I’ve only read the faq and haven’t actually tried it myself. Basically I’m wondering if it’s worth doing a deep dive on this technology
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Give CodeBerg a look. It’s starting to pick up some steam.
Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
A lot of my favorite open source android apps have been switching to CodeBerg. Some of my less than legal ones have moved to Telegram, unfortunately. That aside, CodeBerg is great and hopefully it will gain even more traction soon.
It’s nice that Obtainium supports CodeBerg, too. I have a few must-have apps that I like to keep up to date straight from their repositories.
Matty_r@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
CodeBerg is a public instance of Forgejo. You can run your own local instance of Forgejo.
At some point they’ll have federation working so you’ll be able to use your home instance of Forgejo to interact with other projects/instances.
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It doesn’t catch on because entry level devs love committing private keys
SirQuack@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
But how else am I to verify my trust? I trust GitHub!
/s
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Widevine, BTW, is a Google product that all the browser vendors agree to use. Its the only reason HTML5 has gotten anywhere.
drmoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Its crazy that we can’t agree on any international rules except the ones that protect IP hoarding
x00z@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This just implies that the Microsoft employee was an OnlyFans subscriber simp.
StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Ngl if you pirate indie porn you are scum. Most people who make it aren’t well off.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
not everyone that downloads content isn’t paying for it… they might just want it in a place or format that isn’t being provided
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Is this a pirating tool or a tool for downloading local copies of what you did pay for? I know Fansly has weird settings where you lose access to stuff you paid for if you change your tier or need to lapse your membership for a bit. I stopped paying anyone when the archiving tool I used stopped working.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Like Katy Perry???
StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Don’t be a bell end
doodledup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Github is not just attacking random open-source projects… The mentioned repositories enable and encourage criminal behavior. And it’s quiet intentional. It’s because of piracy that we have DRM in the first place. The audacity now of pirates to wine about them not getting what they want like the entire world revolves just around them.
drspod@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.
doodledup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you serious right now? You can’t actually believe ordinary people will go out of their way to visit some random Github repository just to remove the DRM for their convenience. I guarantee you that 100% of contributers and users of that repo are doing piracy.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Because that was the intended use case for this repository.
HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Baseless (and also wrong) assumption that piracy is responsible for by any means significant monetary losses aside, there are other reasons for bypassing that DRM bullshit. Like, off the top of my head:
- archiving – when you don’t have a local copy of a piece of content, it can be changed or deleted at any time;
- ability to access stuff on a wider range of devices – I want to be able watch my favorite coomtent creator in full resolution on my phone that has only L3 and quite outdated version of widevine without installing proprietary crapp, so what;
- bypassing bullshit restrictions – not sure if onlyfans in particular does that, but we have Netflix, for example, that would tell you to fuck off when you’re not watching from home be it VPN or an actually different location when traveling.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They know all that. They want you to be able to only consume content the exact they they publish it.
That simplifies market analysis, removes the dilemma of supporting or not supporting some other way users want, and ideally selling the same thing a few times.
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Bypassing DRM isn’t criminal behaviour.
andxz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Your whole series of posts in this thread are seriously unhinged. Are you trying to cosplay a corpo bootlicker or something?
It’s either that or you’ve been born wealthy enough to never have to think about the money you spend.
doodledup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’re working for the same corpos and you’re getting payed. You’re part of the system and you’re profiting of it. So stop getting payed then. You guys are pretentious and can’t think past the simplest complexities of an economic system.
Fijxu@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
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victorz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Curious to know what this email conversation looks like. 🍿
rustyfemboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean, “fuck you OnlyFans” seems correct phrasing
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
git clone this before it gets taken down