Even the Discord and Buymeacoffee page got taken down. This is larger than any other DMCA I know of

Edit: even the Telegram has been nuked. Yup, Telegram

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    Yet another reminder that GitHub is not your friend, but also that borderline projects shouldn’t be hosted on anyone else’s server other than your own, you’ll possess all the repository data, but you’ll also be made to shut down anyway if on the clearnet, so I wonder if it’s possible to host a forge through Tor/i2p or others.

    Still, this is clearly wrong on who sent the DMCA, the apps never host the content, I hope they can get back up.

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    I doubt this is larger than when MegaUpload got DMCA’d.

    But yes, it’s pretty big.

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    Hopefully they had backups elsewhere. This is why piracy apps need to at least try a little to not make their github so obviously a piracy app.

    I hope @MonetarySqueeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com updates reiverr to use open source movies from the blender studio for the images/gifs so it can be passed off as a media app for non piracy related streaming

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      It was pretty popular and had thousands of stars. It even trended on GitHub

      So this was pretty much unavoidable.

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    Imo this is why big projects that are borderline like this should use github alternatives, preferably self hosted solutions. This was always going to happen.

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    Question - What happens if we are hosting a Git repo ourselves, like using Gitea or something, and we receive a DMCA takedown request and we refuse? I mean, they can take down the domain, but what if weare hosting on a personal homeserver and keep changing domains whenever they take one down?

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      Then it’s your choice to comply, call their bluff, or do whatever you want. I’ve seen people who doxxed the DMCA sender and made threats towards the sending agent (the hoster was Russian).

      Though best course of action would be to comply or ignore it, don’t do what that guy did, best to keep quiet than to stir up trouble.

      Outright refusal or ignoring it does come with the risk of litigation (threats can accelerate it or lead to prosecution) assuming you’re within their jurisdiction.

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      Legally, you cannot refuse. DMCA is written such that the host must take down first and ask questions later.

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      Then they would sue you and could get you in prison or at least you have to pay a very large fine. Possibly millions.

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      What is git repo federation? Why will this help?

      I thought git is a very decentralized technology?

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          I believe that Git is decentralized. Because people choose to use Git hosting services doesn’t make Git itself centralized. Git doesn’t force you to sign up on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. You can use git-appraise to get decentralized code reviews. You can use git-bug to get decentralized issue tracking. You can always send maintainers patches with the built-in send-email command as GitHub/GitLab/… require an email address either way. You can always clone and push the repository somewhere else. Most (self-hosted) Git hosting services provide an automated migration procedure for issues, discussions, etc.

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          Like Git x activityPub 🤔 seems doable, or where would be problems? Just something like pipeline, which creates an activity post including the commits🤔🤔

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      But I like Anilist. And the UI and features of Saikou

      The UI of Tachiyomi isn’t made for Anime. It’s a Manga app and it’s great for that, but it’s horrible for Anime

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        It has anilist too, that’s what I use. I had never even heard of saikou before so haven’t used it but I’ve never had any issues with aniyomi. It’s perfectly functional in finding anything I want to watch and looks good. Can’t do anything about your subjective preferences though.

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          Just that Saikou isn’t just an anime streaming app. It’s also an Anilist client. And it’s beautiful and I love the animations and video player features like a skip intro button and it’s generally just beautiful. You also can read Manga with it, but I honestly prefer Tachiyomi for that.

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            I see. Well with the power of anime I’m sure some weeb out there will make a fork of it one way or another

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            Aniyomi already has Aniskip (skip intros) integrated and can connect to your Anilist account to update your entries, automatically if you enable that, or manually.

            I almost never go to the actual Anilist interface anymore, it works great.

            I also use it to read a lot, and it has extensions for everything including Drama, Movies, Hentai, Porn…

            For me it was always the best app.

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              Ehh, not for me.

              Like I said before it’s an Manga app that added Anime streaming functionality. I still use Tachiyomi for Manga though.

              With Aniyomi I can’t easily discover new anime, continue watching ones I added on Anilist on my PC and have this beautiful UI with really good, switch sources with a press of a button and have these fluid animations.

              Just look at this: Screenshot_20230929-184148