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Where? Pretty much anyone will honor a DMCA takedown. There might be some grey area where some hosts will be better at identifying an invalid/bad-faith one, but

by paulgb 7y ago

Where? Pretty much anyone will honor a DMCA takedown. There might be some grey area where some hosts will be better at identifying an invalid/bad-faith one, but this one appears to be valid.

notyourday 7y ago
Counter-notice fixes it, making github restore it and giving Github immunity.
- slig 7y ago
  That's a nice way to get legal problems with one of the biggest companies in the world.
- thejsa 7y ago
  GitHub waits fourteen days for the complainant to respond to your counter-notice before putting your repo back up, from experience :/ In addition, they won't even give you any info they hold on the complainant other than that explicitly included in the notice itself, claiming 'data protection' (some troll hit a bunch of my repositories with fraudulent takedowns in two waves, meaning it took about a month before they were all restored)
asjw 7y ago
Outside of the US The world is a pretty large place...
coleifer 7y ago
Git has an amazing variety of frontends and ways to distribute your code.
CarelessExpert 7y ago
On your own web server? You don't need GitHub to publish or host a git repo...
- dewey 7y ago
  Your own webserver that's hosted by a hosting company? Most of the have very well oiled workflows for responding to DMCA violations. If you run your own server they'll go to your ISP.
  - CarelessExpert 7y ago
    Are you aware that companies in countries like Canada don't respond to DMCA takedown requests, nor do they have domestic equivalents?
    - dewey 7y ago
      Maybe not 100% identical to the DMCA takedown requests but there are systems in place to deal with these kinds of issues. If your hoster / ISP receives a bunch of these notices they'll probably reconsider hosting your content. https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html
      - CarelessExpert 7y ago
        Valid point. Bill C-11 certainly made a mess of the situation in Canada. That said, there are plenty of other international jurisdictions where a server or VPS could be used to host this kind of content, so I think the fundamental point still remains: Yes, hosting content on a large US-based provider like GitHub means your content is available at their discretion. Hosting the content yourself gives you a much greater degree of freedom to control the availability of that content. Which is why I never rely solely on commercial cloud services like this for hosting my content.
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vanous 7y ago
This is why codeberg was started. https://codeberg.org/ https://codeberg.org/

by paulgb 7y ago

Where? Pretty much anyone will honor a DMCA takedown. There might be some grey area where some hosts will be better at identifying an invalid/bad-faith one, but this one appears to be valid.

notyourday 7y ago

Counter-notice fixes it, making github restore it and giving Github immunity.

slig 7y ago
That's a nice way to get legal problems with one of the biggest companies in the world.
thejsa 7y ago
GitHub waits fourteen days for the complainant to respond to your counter-notice before putting your repo back up, from experience :/ In addition, they won't even give you any info they hold on the complainant other than that explicitly included in the notice itself, claiming 'data protection' (some troll hit a bunch of my repositories with fraudulent takedowns in two waves, meaning it took about a month before they were all restored)

asjw 7y ago

Outside of the US The world is a pretty large place...

coleifer 7y ago

Git has an amazing variety of frontends and ways to distribute your code.

CarelessExpert 7y ago

On your own web server? You don't need GitHub to publish or host a git repo...

dewey 7y ago
Your own webserver that's hosted by a hosting company? Most of the have very well oiled workflows for responding to DMCA violations. If you run your own server they'll go to your ISP.
- CarelessExpert 7y ago
  Are you aware that companies in countries like Canada don't respond to DMCA takedown requests, nor do they have domestic equivalents?
  - dewey 7y ago
    Maybe not 100% identical to the DMCA takedown requests but there are systems in place to deal with these kinds of issues. If your hoster / ISP receives a bunch of these notices they'll probably reconsider hosting your content. https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html
    - CarelessExpert 7y ago
      Valid point. Bill C-11 certainly made a mess of the situation in Canada. That said, there are plenty of other international jurisdictions where a server or VPS could be used to host this kind of content, so I think the fundamental point still remains: Yes, hosting content on a large US-based provider like GitHub means your content is available at their discretion. Hosting the content yourself gives you a much greater degree of freedom to control the availability of that content. Which is why I never rely solely on commercial cloud services like this for hosting my content.
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vanous 7y ago

This is why codeberg was started. https://codeberg.org/ https://codeberg.org/