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I can't understand why anyone would use GitHub for anything DMCA-able when there's archive.org, mega, ipfs, i2p, and the new z-lib home. Perhaps some people believe it's equivalent to Gitee when it's not or are too lazy to put it somewhere that won't immediately dmcarot or linkrot.

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It’s because of this:

> One early upload of more than 270,000 links appeared on GitHub and then took on a life of its own as contributors added to the database and created their own forks.

> A subsequent readme file suggests that the archive later contained over six million magnet links, possibly one of the largest collections ever seen.

Github has users and it’s trivial to contribute.

I don’t see why you wouldn’t host/mirror on GitHub even in light of this event since you can mine free contributions no matter where else you host it.

Could a hybrid approach work? [1] Add a "Login with Github" button on a forum or some other file sharing thing or some other self hosted repo platform.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71741596/how-do-i-implem...

SQLite database replicated in some fashion?

Rarbg was on ipfs but it is now gone again, not sure if it's up somewhere else. This was the link that was posted to HN a while ago:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW...

It’s gone from the ipfs.io gateway but the CID is still available in the network. Take your own IPFS node (e.g. companion or Brave’s built-in) and you should be able to resolve it

Archive.org is DMCA-able. I know, I just lost a very comfy Sailor Moon VHS archive because of it.

Mega is too, as to be expected. That’s the whole reason Kim Dotcom is in so much hot water.

>Sailor Moon VHS archive

Why would you watch a VHS rip over a higher quality encode of the series? Was the VHS a fansub or something? What is the benefit of all those VHS glitches and muddy muted colors and that blur on the bottom of the edges?

Nostalgia?

Doesn't Gitee require manual review of all repos now?

Do we just have to read their mind? It's not DMCAable in the first place, this is yet another bogus DMCA request.

I've used gitee for OSS before, but never knew they could be used for DMCA-able content.

> Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." [0]

erm, sounds like that would just swap one government's ideology of unsharable information with another government's. It's just not called DMCA. Those two do overlap, even in the most popular of cases like US movies, but for different reasons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee

How can I best contact archive.org? Will definitely be following up with them to see if they can host these git repos.

They already host a ton of torrent DB archives.

Because people already have github accounts. This makes the friction to contributors less than with other sites. I would still keep a mirror in another site.

Plus it's owned by Microsoft, of course they aren't going to host that and the first complaint, down it goes.

What’s the new z-lib home?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776188

And https://inkstickmedia.com/z-librarys-closure-raises-tough-qu...

And their single login domain got seized. Oh boy.

I used Bing and the first link it gave was to a working site.

I agree, this looks like a misuse of Github unless these magnet link archives were part of a software project. I'm fed up with people abusing this service for this stuff. Support piracy somewhere else.

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