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That's done by the company itself, though. Not sure how this is going to serve them. Won't everyone (who cares about this) see exactly what they are trying to d

That's done by the company itself, though. Not sure how this is going to serve them. Won't everyone (who cares about this) see exactly what they are trying to do, and then fight against it? I saw Jake Appelbaum even ask the Chrome team to pay attention to it, so they know how to protect users against it. Also, the same way Popcorn Time repositories got banned from Github, couldn't this be banned, too, for malware/cybercrime, etc? What's Github's policy on that?

maxmcd 12y ago
This is from the company itself? It's promoted by the mentioned twitter account: https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr That's a spoof account, no?
UVB-76 12y ago
That GitHub account is a parody, set up after the leaks, in the same vein as the parody Twitter account [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672 https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672
starnixgod 12y ago
popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2]. 1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a0953b387c6a0e6bfc52/2014-07-11-MPAA.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095... 2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service
- Buge 12y ago
  I would expect to see a DMCA request from Gamma as well. This seems like a better application for a DMCA than Popcorntime. This is actual copyrighted stuff taken from Gamma. With Popcorntime it was just a tool that could be used for taking copyrighted stuff.
- jevinskie 12y ago
  Ah, what a "fun" repo. I feel somewhat proud to have contributed code to a repo that was part of the first DMCA takedown that Github has in the dmca repo. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.markdown https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.m...

maxmcd 12y ago

This is from the company itself? It's promoted by the mentioned twitter account: https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr https://twitter.com/gammagrouppr That's a spoof account, no?

UVB-76 12y ago

That GitHub account is a parody, set up after the leaks, in the same vein as the parody Twitter account [1] [1] https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672 https://twitter.com/GammaGroupPR/status/496787518302748672

starnixgod 12y ago

popcorntime was taken "banned" due to a DMCA take down requested by the MPAA[1] and not for violating Github rules which are pretty permissive[2]. 1. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a0953b387c6a0e6bfc52/2014-07-11-MPAA.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/3ccbdf1e3d20c78616c9a095... 2. See G7 - https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service

Buge 12y ago
I would expect to see a DMCA request from Gamma as well. This seems like a better application for a DMCA than Popcorntime. This is actual copyrighted stuff taken from Gamma. With Popcorntime it was just a tool that could be used for taking copyrighted stuff.
jevinskie 12y ago
Ah, what a "fun" repo. I feel somewhat proud to have contributed code to a repo that was part of the first DMCA takedown that Github has in the dmca repo. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.markdown https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2011-01-27-sony.m...