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Did you read the new policies? It sounds like in the future it will be way more difficult to get repos taken down with DMCAs, and even for legitimate ones they'
by thebean11 6y ago
Did you read the new policies? It sounds like in the future it will be way more difficult to get repos taken down with DMCAs, and even for legitimate ones they'll allow devs to respond or fix the repo before it gets removed.
Maybe GitHub didn't nail it this time but in my opinion it takes some mental gymnastics to not see this post as a really positive turn from GH.
- CivBase 6y ago> it takes some mental gymnastics to not see this post as a really positive turn from GH. So... why did the EFF have to step in here? GitHub deserves some credit, but I cannot give them all of the credit. As far as I can tell, this situation was at a stand still for the better part of a month until the EFF got involved.
- scrollaway 6y agoThe EFF's letter gave them the legal justification they needed to restore it. It helped. The fact they restored everything in just a day after receiving it makes that pretty clear. They didn't need to evaluate their options much at all; as soon as they received it, the repo was back. I wouldn't even be surprised to learn that the EFF talked off the record with GitHub beforehand.
- CivBase 6y agoWhy didn't they have "the legal justification they needed to restore it" before the EFF sent their letter? We're talking about Microsoft here. I do not believe they are so helpless.
- scrollaway 6y agoDude, I'm not a lawyer. Either you are, and you can explain it to me, or you're not, and you don't know better than I do.
- CivBase 6y agoI'm not a lawyer either. That's why I'm asking for an explanation on HN.
- austhrow743 6y agoSure, it's a good change. Doesn't stop the title "Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back" from being suggestive of Github being the one that stood up for YouTube-dl, which they didn't.
- LeoNatan25 6y agoThat was my thinking.