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[–] 125 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] 110 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Codeberg exists. But no people still have to just flock to corporate bullshit and then be surprised when they pull a corporate bullshit.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for "circumventing copy protection", or "hacking".

    So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Also has the highest rate of website take-downs/bans. To be fair: mostly revenge “naked pictures of my ex” websites. But yeah. Piracy + Germany = not good. You’d rather turn to the Netherlands for that.

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The project is now being made available via a repo on cdm-project.com but how long that’s likely to last is unclear.

    Please streisand it.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've mirrored it to my own git server too https://git.ngram.ca/mirrors/cdrm-project I will ignore DCMAs because I (and the server) don't live in the USA.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Canada might start ignoring DMCA as a whole if the idiots in my government keep harassing them. Maybe that'll piss off Hollywood and friends in a useful way...

    (Just ignore me laugh weeping at the prospect that billionaires stabbing each other in the back is the only thing I can look forward to in my country now)

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    sent a complaint

    project has been ejected

    Bad pattern.

    The moment when GitHub was bought by M$, the risk of such behavior started.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    To GitHub’s credit, when rightsholders allege violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions, GitHub conducts its own assessment. If there is no basis for a claim, GitHub sometimes finds other copyright-related grounds, but here there is no pushback. That’s usually a sign of a complaint that stands up under intense scrutiny.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    There needs to be a widespread p2p solution for opensource projects before its too late. I have lost count of all the amazing stuff that has been gravity bombed from orbit.

    There also needs to be a way for authors to submit things anonymously too and maybe sign their things with cryptographic keys to ID it. How many times has a company had a court order someone to cease and desist or simply acquire somebody's work?

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    p2p solution for opensource projects

    That's called Git and it's been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (22 children)

    Right? Git is literally decentralized. If you choose to use GitHub as a centralized Git service, that's on you.

    (I will caveat this by saying we moved 2009scape off GitHub and the number of new contributors probably got cut in half. Mainstream services have a lot more eyes)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    2009scape is wonderful for those like me who need to scratch that RuneScape itch without a subscription. The fact I can play it off of a USB is testament to itself how incredibly awesome you guys are. Thank you for the project, sincerely. :')

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    [+] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Give CodeBerg a look. It's starting to pick up some steam.

    https://codeberg.org/

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lot of my favorite open source android apps have been switching to CodeBerg. Some of my less than legal ones have moved to Telegram, unfortunately. That aside, CodeBerg is great and hopefully it will gain even more traction soon.

    It's nice that Obtainium supports CodeBerg, too. I have a few must-have apps that I like to keep up to date straight from their repositories.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    CodeBerg is a public instance of Forgejo. You can run your own local instance of Forgejo.

    At some point they'll have federation working so you'll be able to use your home instance of Forgejo to interact with other projects/instances.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Widevine, BTW, is a Google product that all the browser vendors agree to use. Its the only reason HTML5 has gotten anywhere.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    This just implies that the Microsoft employee was an OnlyFans subscriber simp.

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