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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It will be funny to see folks who spent the last ten years posting "It's not stealing, it's copying" memes suddenly find religion because Evil Foreign People got involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm quite scared of how AI apparently pushes people in favour of significantly stricter copyrights. This is not a good trend.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This isn't people being influenced by AI. This is Microsoft's Godzilla battling the RIAA/MPAA's King Kong.

The trend, to date, has been consolidation of media properties under fewer and more hegemonic distributors. And now we're seeing a couple of economic Titans battle over the position of "Last Legitimate Music Vendor".