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Completely agree. GP might be mixing up legal with ethical, which is quite common. The grabber's actions were performed intentionally, in bad faith.
by politelemon 2y ago
Completely agree. GP might be mixing up legal with ethical, which is quite common. The grabber's actions were performed intentionally, in bad faith.
- TrueGeek 2y agoThere is no evidence that the person who bought the domain name in bad faith. The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo. The MUCH more likely scenario is that someone simply thought of the same name and bought it.
- quietbritishjim 2y ago> The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo. I think you are severely underestimating how often this sort of behaviour happens.