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Would this not qualify as "producing and disseminating technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent" DRM? Because that's a crime under the DMCA. But

by fernly 10y ago

Would this not qualify as "producing and disseminating technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent" DRM? Because that's a crime under the DMCA. But I'm just askin', you know?

r3bl 10y ago
> Because that's a crime under the DMCA. It's a crime in the U.S., it's not a crime in my country. But this guy has listed American University's email address, so I would definitely remove this software if I were him. In fact, if I were him, I would find someone not from the U.S. to host the repository, make it private, give him the read/write privileges and then occasionally push the changes to a new public repo (so that the .git folder is different and one could not track the changes as they happen). But that's just me...
- drewbug 10y ago
  Or host it on a Tor hidden service!
  - wyager 10y ago
    A tor-ified github clone would be interesting. You'd probably see a lot of cool pro-freedom software projects that are illegal in their originating country, like this one.
    - jlgaddis 10y ago
      A bunch of version control'd child porn is what I'd be scared of.
      - anc84 10y ago
        Yeah, that or at least terrorists!!!!!!1
    - d33 10y ago
      Actually I've been thinking about it so many times that I'm surprised that nobody did it yet. "Hidden Gitlab", anyone?
gpm 10y ago
I don't believe so, the DMCA prevents circumventing access controls not watermarks. I am not a lawyer though!