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I don't really see how GitHub receiving a staggering 1 DMCA notice a month from Sony is newsworthy ... the interesting number isn't that 50% (aka "6") notices w
by benologist 15y ago
I don't really see how GitHub receiving a staggering 1 DMCA notice a month from Sony is newsworthy ... the interesting number isn't that 50% (aka "6") notices were sent this year by Sony, it's that GitHub's only gotten 12 all year.
Other than not deliberately cultivate an environment for illegal file sharing, what has GitHub done to insulate themselves from the piracy & file sharing community so effectively? It seems like it'd be a great place to dump illegal music/videos/app/game/etc downloads, and accounts are easy to make.
- hartror 15y agoThere are dozens of download sites like rapidshare that allow you to do what you describe without the overhead of git and the files are far more hidden than they are on github.
- 46Bit 15y agoMore hassle than it's worth for public repos as compared to simply uploading to a random site or torrenting. As for private ones, no DMCA requests since they don't know about them.
- henryw 15y agoyeah, 12 is not that statistically significant. If they had >30, than maybe.
- HoyaSaxa 15y agoO how I love the central limit theorem