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"There are basically zero places online hosting content from 3rd party entities which do not honor DMCA takedowns." This is false. I was personally involved in
by DannyBee 12y ago
"There are basically zero places online hosting content from 3rd party entities which do not honor DMCA takedowns."
This is false. I was personally involved in one very large one (190k+ source code projects) where we pushed back on clearly invalid legally (but not syntactically) DMCA requests all the time, such as for trademark violations, or claims for source they didn't own, or ...
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- mh- 12y agoand now imagine if that effort had been put into keeping Google Code modern. instead, it was allowed to stagnate while GitHub ate its lunch.
- DannyBee 12y agoI think you missed the point of Google Code. Google Code was not intended to "win". Google Code was intended to provide an alternative the worsening monoculture of Sourceforge, because it was becoming actively harmful to open source. In that, it succeeded wildly. Github does not appear to be a worsening monoculture (though it is, in a lot of ways, a monoculture).