Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations
Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations
Bypass Paywalls Clean, a popular browser extension that does exactly what its name suggests, has been shut down along with 3,879 forks.
FYI, the repo is not DMCAd yet, only the download URL which moved to gitflic.
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Hosting on the github was never going to work. This needs hoisting on something like a gitea behind an anonymized host which ignores dmca
Only problem of hosting in a russian site, is that it's going to raise red flags for many people, causing them to avoid it.
Yeah, I have Russia and a few other countries blocked on my network. That is a no-go for me personally.
Yes, I agree. I found this over the weekend, and immediately backed out and scanned my computer. I just figured it had been compromised.
That mostly reeks of Classic Americacentrism. When a software is in a US site, it's "good" but subject to DMCA. When it's in a Russian site, suddenly it's All Malware (Always Has Been)?
Not what I said?