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PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P! (geti2p.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not Gitea, they got bought by a for-profit company or something

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 30 points 4 months ago

Ah yes. Forgejo is the current community fork.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 9 points 4 months ago

So far nothing bad has happened and the company was founded so they can sell support hours to businesses. Just like lots of other companies behind Open Source projects do it. 🤷‍♂️

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why does that matter? The most popular Linux distros are run by for-profit companies.

I'm curious what real-world scenario you're envisioning that is likely to happen soon.