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I can't understand why anyone would use GitHub for anything DMCA-able when there's archive.org, mega, ipfs, i2p, and the new z-lib home. Perhaps some people bel

I can't understand why anyone would use GitHub for anything DMCA-able when there's archive.org, mega, ipfs, i2p, and the new z-lib home. Perhaps some people believe it's equivalent to Gitee when it's not or are too lazy to put it somewhere that won't immediately dmcarot or linkrot.

RobotToaster 3y ago
I've used gitee for OSS before, but never knew they could be used for DMCA-able content.
- tomxor 3y ago
  > Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." [0] erm, sounds like that would just swap one government's ideology of unsharable information with another government's. It's just not called DMCA. Those two do overlap, even in the most popular of cases like US movies, but for different reasons. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee
MallocVoidstar 3y ago
Doesn't Gitee require manual review of all repos now?
omgmajk 3y ago
Rarbg was on ipfs but it is now gone again, not sure if it's up somewhere else. This was the link that was posted to HN a while ago: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW...
- dennis-tra 3y ago
  It’s gone from the ipfs.io gateway but the CID is still available in the network. Take your own IPFS node (e.g. companion or Brave’s built-in) and you should be able to resolve it
hombre_fatal 3y ago
It’s because of this: > One early upload of more than 270,000 links appeared on GitHub and then took on a life of its own as contributors added to the database and created their own forks. > A subsequent readme file suggests that the archive later contained over six million magnet links, possibly one of the largest collections ever seen. Github has users and it’s trivial to contribute. I don’t see why you wouldn’t host/mirror on GitHub even in light of this event since you can mine free contributions no matter where else you host it.
- LinuxBender 3y ago
  Could a hybrid approach work? [1] Add a "Login with Github" button on a forum or some other file sharing thing or some other self hosted repo platform. [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implement-social-login-with-github-accounts https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implem...
  - toomuchtodo 3y ago
    SQLite database replicated in some fashion?
gandalfgreybeer 3y ago
What’s the new z-lib home?
- hiccuphippo 3y ago
  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776188
  - c420 3y ago
    And https://inkstickmedia.com/z-librarys-closure-raises-tough-questions-about-access/ https://inkstickmedia.com/z-librarys-closure-raises-tough-qu...
  - PickledHotdog 3y ago
    And their single login domain got seized. Oh boy.
- deleted 3y ago
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- jug 3y ago
  I used Bing and the first link it gave was to a working site.
hiccuphippo 3y ago
Because people already have github accounts. This makes the friction to contributors less than with other sites. I would still keep a mirror in another site.
jug 3y ago
I agree, this looks like a misuse of Github unless these magnet link archives were part of a software project. I'm fed up with people abusing this service for this stuff. Support piracy somewhere else.
tourmalinetaco 3y ago
Archive.org is DMCA-able. I know, I just lost a very comfy Sailor Moon VHS archive because of it. Mega is too, as to be expected. That’s the whole reason Kim Dotcom is in so much hot water.
- bacchusracine 3y ago
  >Sailor Moon VHS archive Why would you watch a VHS rip over a higher quality encode of the series? Was the VHS a fansub or something? What is the benefit of all those VHS glitches and muddy muted colors and that blur on the bottom of the edges?
  - Eldt 3y ago
    Nostalgia?
stjohnswarts 3y ago
Plus it's owned by Microsoft, of course they aren't going to host that and the first complaint, down it goes.
metadat 3y ago
How can I best contact archive.org? Will definitely be following up with them to see if they can host these git repos. They already host a ton of torrent DB archives.
creatonez 3y ago
Do we just have to read their mind? It's not DMCAable in the first place, this is yet another bogus DMCA request.

RobotToaster 3y ago

I've used gitee for OSS before, but never knew they could be used for DMCA-able content.

tomxor 3y ago
> Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." [0] erm, sounds like that would just swap one government's ideology of unsharable information with another government's. It's just not called DMCA. Those two do overlap, even in the most popular of cases like US movies, but for different reasons. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee

MallocVoidstar 3y ago

Doesn't Gitee require manual review of all repos now?

omgmajk 3y ago

Rarbg was on ipfs but it is now gone again, not sure if it's up somewhere else. This was the link that was posted to HN a while ago: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW...

dennis-tra 3y ago
It’s gone from the ipfs.io gateway but the CID is still available in the network. Take your own IPFS node (e.g. companion or Brave’s built-in) and you should be able to resolve it

hombre_fatal 3y ago

It’s because of this: > One early upload of more than 270,000 links appeared on GitHub and then took on a life of its own as contributors added to the database and created their own forks. > A subsequent readme file suggests that the archive later contained over six million magnet links, possibly one of the largest collections ever seen. Github has users and it’s trivial to contribute. I don’t see why you wouldn’t host/mirror on GitHub even in light of this event since you can mine free contributions no matter where else you host it.

LinuxBender 3y ago
Could a hybrid approach work? [1] Add a "Login with Github" button on a forum or some other file sharing thing or some other self hosted repo platform. [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implement-social-login-with-github-accounts https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implem...
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  SQLite database replicated in some fashion?

gandalfgreybeer 3y ago

What’s the new z-lib home?

hiccuphippo 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776188
- c420 3y ago
  And https://inkstickmedia.com/z-librarys-closure-raises-tough-questions-about-access/ https://inkstickmedia.com/z-librarys-closure-raises-tough-qu...
- PickledHotdog 3y ago
  And their single login domain got seized. Oh boy.
deleted 3y ago
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jug 3y ago
I used Bing and the first link it gave was to a working site.

hiccuphippo 3y ago

Because people already have github accounts. This makes the friction to contributors less than with other sites. I would still keep a mirror in another site.

jug 3y ago

I agree, this looks like a misuse of Github unless these magnet link archives were part of a software project. I'm fed up with people abusing this service for this stuff. Support piracy somewhere else.

tourmalinetaco 3y ago

Archive.org is DMCA-able. I know, I just lost a very comfy Sailor Moon VHS archive because of it. Mega is too, as to be expected. That’s the whole reason Kim Dotcom is in so much hot water.

bacchusracine 3y ago
>Sailor Moon VHS archive Why would you watch a VHS rip over a higher quality encode of the series? Was the VHS a fansub or something? What is the benefit of all those VHS glitches and muddy muted colors and that blur on the bottom of the edges?
- Eldt 3y ago
  Nostalgia?

stjohnswarts 3y ago

Plus it's owned by Microsoft, of course they aren't going to host that and the first complaint, down it goes.

metadat 3y ago

How can I best contact archive.org? Will definitely be following up with them to see if they can host these git repos. They already host a ton of torrent DB archives.

creatonez 3y ago

Do we just have to read their mind? It's not DMCAable in the first place, this is yet another bogus DMCA request.