Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool
Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool
Financial risk too great for dev working "in my spare time to help others."
Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.
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A Federated git repo would make this immune from an easy take-down.
Lol no it wouldn't. The guy doesn't want to commit resources to fight this, since it's a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.
Unless y'all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.
While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this: https://xkcd.com/538/
Oh god.
Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it'll fix everything, isnt it?
it already is.
Except the use case it was designed for is actually used...
I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.
Exactly my point. you cant issue a DMCA takedown on the fediverse. It just doesn't work like that.
very confident for something that's never been done or tested legally. If there were forks all over a fediverse on decentralized federated gitea instances, mazda doesn't have the resources to go after every single ISP hosting a federated gitea instance.
Isn't Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense, just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.
It's easy to host a private git instance but if you're on a federated git and I am on a federated git, we can still collaborate on projects vs. a private instance that might have all the features of github or gitlab but there's no central authentication mechanism so there's no way for each other to collaborate.
gitea solves these problems.
Oh okay, how cool. You have piqued my interest, I will check out Gitea for now for sure. Thanks for the explanation.
Kids these days...
Linus Torvalds rather famously managed Linux patches for decades without a centralized server.
Only if anonymous. Eventually they’d get a court to order their domain be cancelled and they’d be offline anyway.
That would only be one instance though. Federation - decentralized. Forks on other servers, in other countries, with other court systems. It's a legal nightmare. My buddy from college is a corporate internet lawyer and he's all about this, as in a legal nightmare and super interesting to study.
Whack a mole I guess. Are we back to playing with Napster?
Absolutely false.