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At first I thought they were doing this for humor (like the piratebay's publishing of "cease and desist" letters), but when I clicked the links to the repos and
by hasenj 16y ago
At first I thought they were doing this for humor (like the piratebay's publishing of "cease and desist" letters), but when I clicked the links to the repos and realized they did get removed, I kinda felt sad.
- lukev 16y agoDon't be. The DCMA is stupid, but the fact is, people DO post copyrighted material all the time, and it IS legitimate to take it down. We want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether.
- dtby 16y agoWe want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether. For whom are you speaking when you say "we?"
- kiba 16y agoI just unlicense my stuff. I don't really care because I got paid anyway.
- jamii 16y agoHowever, neither of the notices in the repo at the moment seem to be valid. Both are takedowns of circumvention tools which, as wtallis points out above, are covered in a different section of the DMCA to copyright takedowns.
- albertzeyer 16y agoHow are the ps3 utils copyrighted? Isn't that all reverse engineered work?
- sliverstorm 16y agoGithub is not worth loosing over a copyright spat. Leave that to the folks at Pirate Bay