There'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 doe

There'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.