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That won't be easy because Codeberg follows German law.

And German law is more restrictive than U.S. copyright law, with fewer protections for content uploaders and service providers. There is also no concept of fair use that limits copyright.

I want Codeberg to succeed, but running an open code hosting platform (both in the sense that anyone can create an account, and the service source code is publicly available) in the European Union, and especially Germany, is extremely challenging from a legal perspective. Sadly, once they become successful and popular, they will have to implement all kinds of weird stuff, like proprietary scanners for potentially infringing content prior to publishing it.


Germany and the EU will probably kowtow to the US if the DMCA requests or lawsuits are brought by big enough players.

Big money interests rub shoulders with US politicians, US politicians deal with their overseas counterparts. Therefore, big enough DMCA requests will be mentioned behind closed doors in the same breath as international trade and other geopolitical concerns. Money protects money in deals between close enough friends and allies.

If Codeberg were based in Russia or a US geopolitical adversary, on the other hand, such requests would likely be ignored.


A DMCA takedown is targeted at the host and is a pre-lawsuit thing ("we claim X and if you take it down now your host is safe" via the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions). If they escalate to lawsuits then not sure it's significantly different in Germany vs the USA. It's not like Europe is free from things like blocking all of Cloudflare because the football league wants to.

This procedure only applies to copyright-infringing content, not to trafficking in circumvention devices. It seems that in this case, it's the latter.

Complaining about paywalls(or in this case popups) is offtopic on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html


This is just delightful. What would make it perfect is the white noise that you get while switching channels.



Probably just a guy who really loved his wife.

This one also references the name: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/antisymmetric.html


What makes you think that? (not defending them, just curious)


The notion link is not accessible


This is what GP was referring to when they said "chaos monkeys"


I love how clumsy and all over the place that video is


It's like one of those "edit Windows Registry to get around the library time restrictions" videos from 2009. The fact that I'm seeing these for Linux is a sign that nature is healing, I think.


>Forager

This is offtopic but the forager lead dev is often criticized for claiming to be a solo dev and taking credit for other people who worked on the game.

https://indiecator.org/2021/04/14/forager-the-rise-and-fall


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