movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web.

If you’re a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!

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    2 months ago

    If they don’t honor DMCA, what stops them from suing you? And if they got that far, wouldn’t you rather want a DMCA?

    Probably staying on the clear web is good for discoverability, but that’s a two edged sword, because if you piss them off enough, a DMCA would be the best outcome.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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      2 months ago

      At least in Germany, many of these copyright claims have no real legal grounds and wouldn’t hold up in an actual trial. All cases I’ve read into so far ended with a settlement - as the private person was too afraid of even more legal fees. Or were dropped completely after a while (full of empty threats) if the people never engaged with the other party.