• Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
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    There needs to be a widespread p2p solution for opensource projects before its too late. I have lost count of all the amazing stuff that has been gravity bombed from orbit.

    There also needs to be a way for authors to submit things anonymously too and maybe sign their things with cryptographic keys to ID it. How many times has a company had a court order someone to cease and desist or simply acquire somebody’s work?

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      p2p solution for opensource projects

      That’s called Git and it’s been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)

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        Git is, but it has no process of discovery or hosting by itself. Those are needed to efficiently share open source software to large numbers of people.

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        Right? Git is literally decentralized. If you choose to use GitHub as a centralized Git service, that’s on you.

        (I will caveat this by saying we moved 2009scape off GitHub and the number of new contributors probably got cut in half)

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      All you need for this is a global overlay network and a global DNS untied from physical infrastructure. Cryptographic identities (hash of pubkey will do) instead of IP addresses (because NATs are PITA and too many people use mobile devices behind big bad NATs), and finding (in something like Kademlia) records signed by authority you yourself chose to trust instead of asking DNS.

      Then come encryption and dynamic routing and synchronization of published states.

      One can have some kind of Kademlia for discovery of projects too, but on the next level.

      I2P comes close, but it’s more focused on anonymity.

      OK, I’m not sure what I wrote makes sense. These things are easy to grasp somehow, but hard to understand well.

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      Open-source projects are quiet safe on Github. Maybe don’t push illegal code? Seems pretty obvious to me.

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    Widevine, BTW, is a Google product that all the browser vendors agree to use. Its the only reason HTML5 has gotten anywhere.

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      Its crazy that we can’t agree on any international rules except the ones that protect IP hoarding

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    This just implies that the Microsoft employee was an OnlyFans subscriber simp.

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    The mentioned repositories enable and encourage criminal behavior. And it’s quiet intentional. It’s because of piracy that we have DRM in the first place. The audacity now of pirates to wine about them not getting what they want like the entire world revolves just around them.

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      Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.

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        Are you serious right now? You can’t actually believe ordinary people will go out of their way to visit some random Github repository just to remove the DRM for their convenience. I guarantee you that 100% of contributers and users of that repo are doing piracy.

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      Your whole series of posts in this thread are seriously unhinged. Are you trying to cosplay a corpo bootlicker or something?

      It’s either that or you’ve been born wealthy enough to never have to think about the money you spend.

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        You’re working for the same corpos and you’re getting payed. You’re part of the system and you’re profiting off it. We get rid of DRM tomorrow but you get a 20% salary reduction. Would you do it? I think you wouldn’t. So why would they? You guys are pretentious and can’t think past the simplest complexities of an economic system.

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          The only jobs I’ve ever had were teaching and nursing, both paid by the country I live in, not some private entity. I don’t even own a car or a TV, nor do I live in the US for that matter.

          Get your head out of your ass and realise there’s more to life than fucking money. I was born poor and will die poor, but I don’t give a shit because I at least know I helped some people along the way.

          Jfc, the bubble some live in. You should be ashamed of yourself, but I guess you’re not even capable of that, are ya?