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Is it actually ok to download the app without an invite though?
by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
Is it actually ok to download the app without an invite though?
- tinco 13y agoIf you live in The Netherlands it is. You need a license to read it into memory or even modify that memory (by executing it) though ;)
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoLegally, almost certainly. Morally, almost certainly not.
- Blahah 13y agoNot sure about that - if it's on a publicly accessible URL on a site designed to generate public interest, it's their own fault it got out.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoTheir clear wish is for this to be invite only. I agree that their 'security' should probably better if they want to protec themselves against certain types of people, but your argument is akin to justifying robbing a house of its contents because it was only locked up with no alarm and you had to break one window to get in.
- Blahah 13y agoNo, my argument is not akin to that because piracy is not akin to theft. Downloading the beta from a public URL is not depriving Github of anything or breaking anything of theirs, whereas if I broke a window to steal something I've left the owner with a broken window and deprived them of the contents.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoYet on HN there have been numerous 'security breaches' defended solely due to the fact that the data was accessible via a public URL and if they wanted it secured they should have done better.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoI would assume that github knows how to create a private github repository and therefore they wouldn't mind you cloning / forking it.