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Github is home to a ton of pirated content. Including closed source binaries repackaged in violation of the publishers' licenses. But Github won't do anything u

Github is home to a ton of pirated content. Including closed source binaries repackaged in violation of the publishers' licenses. But Github won't do anything unless the copyright-holder submits a DMCA takedown notice.

akersten 7y ago
As it should be! That's the most beautiful part of the DMCA, allowing sites to operate without having to police every bit of user-uploaded content, only requiring that violations are removed after having been alerted to them. Could you imagine an upload filter or moderation queue before you were allowed to push code to GitHub?