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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] 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] 1 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".