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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 83 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Copyrighted content

archived them

on GitHub

Idk man 🧐
Run the countdown to when it's taken down

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yep, it’s got a DMCA takedown now

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not usually an "I told you so" person, but...

I told them so!

[–] refalo@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's lots of content sitting just below the surface on github. Any time you make a PR on a repo, even if it gets closed or "deleted" by the repo owner, the actual link to the file itself stays there forever if you save it. Github's own dmca repo even has warez links on it, sitting there for years.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that's cool, I had no idea! Though does that apply to content removed for DMCAs?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Usually entire repos are disabled in that case. I've never tried to access hidden content on a DMCA-removed repo, but I assume it would not work.

[–] nihilomaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You could argue that since it's publicly available and this repo only archives it that... I don't know man Copyright law is confusing.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I think you can get some kind of exemption for archival purposes. I know that the Internet Archive has one. But I also know that ultimately Microsoft is responsible for the data hosted on Github, and Microsoft's interest is to not even risk getting sued.