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Yes, GitLab is US, and just one more DMCA notice away from another "takedown"... its time the Internet community looked into other legal jurisdictions that don'
by Santosh83 6y ago
Yes, GitLab is US, and just one more DMCA notice away from another "takedown"... its time the Internet community looked into other legal jurisdictions that don't have to bend to such rules. How does it matter where the bits come from exactly?
This is supposed to be the whole point of the Internet but somehow people are behaving as if the end of the US-hosted GitHub repo is the end of everything!
- xtracto 6y agoEnough of legal jurisdictions. That's why distributed / p2p technology exist. It should be possible to have a distributed version of github.
- Santosh83 6y agoWhile it is a long-term solution, as far as I can see, there is no immediate, P2P solution comparable to GitHub available today, while code-hosting solutions that can be spun up on non-US servers or SaaS products are available for use right now.
- jhgb 6y agoWithout the hub, we could call it just "Git" or something like that.
- yellowapple 6y agoAnd indeed, I can't think of anything in particular that'd be stopping someone from putting git repos on e.g. IPFS.