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Nintendo submit Yuzu DMCA request to Internet Archive (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

the issue isn't federation or anything like that, the issue is finding a repo hosting service in a dmca resilient country

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I get that. But I dont think that its possible to really dmca every fork of a repo on 20 countries without running out of resources at some point because when one fork is taken down, people will make 10 more. the important part is discoverability imo. Feel free to educate me in case this is missing a point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

its easy enough to send angry shit to every server, dmca and whatever rights violations they can think up, and it can become an issue.

Of course, the Federation is great, but you still need an instance that's in one of those privacy-oriented countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can get chatgpt to do this. Or write a simple script.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

-- A wild Codeberg appeared. --

Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

Website: Codeberg.org

The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members' concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.

In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy's "Give Up Github" campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Certainly better than the U.S. in that regard but I wouldn't consider Germany "resilient" either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unfortunately using codeberg itself is kinda crap. Its not the worst thing in the world, but it still has zero discoverability , and is missing features like code search.

it does have potential though if it is resilient.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The DMCA only applies in the US. Every other country doesn't give a shit about your DMCA request.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and yet, they still obey them...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And even EU based companies will bow down to DMCA takedown demands, if they want to serve American customers.