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> Does this put them in a legal situation? Not really. GitHub aren't liable for the initial upload due to safe harbor laws. If the dump is fake, then there's n
by objclxt 10y ago
> Does this put them in a legal situation?
Not really. GitHub aren't liable for the initial upload due to safe harbor laws. If the dump is fake, then there's no problem for GitHub. Life goes on.
If the dump is real then potentially the owner could force GitHub to remove it, but in doing so would have proven the legitimacy of those files, which is something you don't usually want to do.
GitHub may, of course, choose to suspend the account for their own reasons (I don't know, for example, what their T&Cs are for running auctions via their site, but it's probably not allowed).
- sbuttgereit 10y agoThere's a fair amount of legal question with what the repo creators are doing: likely at least fraud and very possibly theft, conspiracy, etc. While GitHub does have safe harbor protections, once they're alerted to their service being used for illegal activity they do have to intervene. They can't knowingly continue to host such material and maintain their safe harbor status.