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Curious to know what this email conversation looks like. πΏ
I mean, "fuck you OnlyFans" seems correct phrasing
git clone this before it gets taken down
Codeberg exists. But no people still have to just flock to corporate bullshit and then be surprised when they pull a corporate bullshit.
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.
Also has the highest rate of website take-downs/bans. To be fair: mostly revenge βnaked pictures of my exβ websites. But yeah. Piracy + Germany = not good. Youβd rather turn to the Netherlands for that.
ActivityPub is amazing for censorship because anything that gets posted to one instance gets immediately archived thousands of times over.
The project is now being made available via a repo on cdm-project.com but how long thatβs likely to last is unclear.
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.
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)
sent a complaint
project has been ejected
Bad pattern.
The moment when GitHub was bought by M$, the risk of such behavior started.
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?
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 :)
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)
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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Git is, but it has no process of discovery or hosting by itself. Those are needed to efficiently share open source software to large numbers of people.
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It's not always takedowns either, just the developer deciding to nuke their own repos. Real annoying, although it's making me more vigilant about forking/mirroring important repos.
I2p has a git service
I found https://radicle.xyz/ but I've never used this technology before. Maybe someone can shed some light?
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I was wondering why these types of open source projects always push to Github, despite the latter always complying with DMCA. (I get that Github provides discoverabilty features, but it just isn't worth it to have all your work taken down).
On a similar note, has anyone tried out https://radicle.xyz/? It's supposed to actually make use of git's peer to peer nature (and not the client server model that everyone adopts with git) and ideally provide discoverability features.
The said I've only read the faq and haven't actually tried it myself. Basically I'm wondering if it's worth doing a deep dive on this technology
Give CodeBerg a look. It's starting to pick up some steam.
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.
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.
It doesn't catch on because entry level devs love committing private keys
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Widevine, BTW, is a Google product that all the browser vendors agree to use. Its the only reason HTML5 has gotten anywhere.
Its crazy that we can't agree on any international rules except the ones that protect IP hoarding
This just implies that the Microsoft employee was an OnlyFans subscriber simp.
Ngl if you pirate indie porn you are scum. Most people who make it aren't well off.
not everyone that downloads content isnβt paying for itβ¦ they might just want it in a place or format that isnβt being provided
Is this a pirating tool or a tool for downloading local copies of what you did pay for? I know Fansly has weird settings where you lose access to stuff you paid for if you change your tier or need to lapse your membership for a bit. I stopped paying anyone when the archiving tool I used stopped working.
Like Katy Perry???
Don't be a bell end
The mentioned repositories enable and encourage criminal behavior. And it's quiet intentional. It's because of piracy that we have DRM in the first place. The audacity now of pirates to wine about them not getting what they want like the entire world revolves just around them.
Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.
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Baseless (and also wrong) assumption that piracy is responsible for by any means significant monetary losses aside, there are other reasons for bypassing that DRM bullshit. Like, off the top of my head:
- archiving -- when you don't have a local copy of a piece of content, it can be changed or deleted at any time;
- ability to access stuff on a wider range of devices -- I want to be able watch my favorite coomtent creator in full resolution on my phone that has only L3 and quite outdated version of widevine without installing proprietary crapp, so what;
- bypassing bullshit restrictions -- not sure if onlyfans in particular does that, but we have Netflix, for example, that would tell you to fuck off when you're not watching from home be it VPN or an actually different location when traveling.
They know all that. They want you to be able to only consume content the exact they they publish it.
That simplifies market analysis, removes the dilemma of supporting or not supporting some other way users want, and ideally selling the same thing a few times.
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Bypassing DRM isn't criminal behaviour.
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