It's important to remember that these projects are not violating copyright law, are not circumvention tools, and that filing a DMCA notice against them is in fact unlawful.
No one has the guts, time, or money to challenge it though
This is what groups like the EFF are for: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_litigation_involving_the_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_litigation_involving_t...</a>
Sadly, you're mostly right and the comments section saying to find a pro-bono lawyer is laughable. I think anyone who believes that exists should actually reach out to a <i>real</i> lawyer and see how that conversation goes. I've had those conversations.<p>Firstly, they can't exist most of the time you can't actually call a lawyer and talk to them - you get their office and their "job" is to gatekeep that lawyer from making any discussions with anyone who isn't represented or paid for a consultation.<p>Secondly, once you do get into contact with them you'll get a blank stare or phone silence. This is not how most lawyers view pro-bono work. Most of them have a very small quota of pro-bono work to be done and that's it. They get assigned a case by their firm or go and accept a few a year from the state and they're done with it. The idea that an altruistic lawyer exists out there ready to do free and unpaid work is virtually non-existent today.
It's lawful if you have a good faith belief that it's a circumvention tool.<p>It might even be true. Not having a download button is a copy protection measure. If this project bypasses not having a download button, it's illegal under DMCA.
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Linking to piracy sites whose content is all blatantly stolen from artists does seem violating to me.
It's exciting to me recently with the increase in copyright abuse and AI blurring the lines that more people are going to be involved with decentralized systems.<p>There have been multiple different ways to host git repositories over DHT networks such as BitTorrent. Similarly there have been ways to run DHT backed commands for Linux package managers like apt.<p>These tools often receive little praise because the value of decentralized systems seems low when centralized systems are working to most users without too many issues.<p>The enshittification is ramping up so quickly recently that more people are reaching out to me on how to setup Linux syatems, home media servers, etc. I genuinely enjoy these technologies, but for the last decade I had more or less just shut up about them to avoid being that guy.
You can't make up things like FAKKU, LLC. This simulation is out of control.
They can just file another DMCA against Codeberg, what am I missing here?
Sounds like Codeberg would still take down the repo, but would be more supportive: <a href="https://blog.codeberg.org/on-the-youtube-dl-dmca-takedown.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.codeberg.org/on-the-youtube-dl-dmca-takedown.ht...</a> (2020)<p>Maybe there are more recent examples?
For real. Use <a href="https://radicle.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.xyz/</a> if you want actual takedown resistance.
That won't be easy because Codeberg follows German law.
Germany and the EU will probably kowtow to the US if the DMCA requests or lawsuits are brought by big enough players.<p>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.<p>If Codeberg were based in Russia or a US geopolitical adversary, on the other hand, such requests would likely be ignored.
What a plain disgusting disgrace FAKKU has become.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakku#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakku#History</a>
Should that fail there's always
<a href="https://gitflic.ru" rel="nofollow">https://gitflic.ru</a> where Bypass Paywalls Clean lives
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Moving to a Germany based host of all places, after being legally harassed over copyright, doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea. Aren't the local courts infamous for being awful to deal with?
I would like to caution readers against visiting the sites that have the banned extractors listed for them. I did that and was visually accosted by cartoon pornography of young girls who look like children.<p>It seems that this is a legal kerfuffle over a pornography downloader for pedophiles.