While that could be a worthy topic of discussion, these scenarios can be immediately addressed using a DMCA counter-notice. BPC’s creator can simply file one with GitLab and in less than two weeks’ time, the platform would have to restore it, if whoever sent the original notice didn’t sue the developer in the United States.
Who is the author of this piece suggesting pays for that potential lawsuit? Like, it's great to say "Oh, they can totally fight this, and they're probably in the right to do so", but companies weaponizing the legal system is basically trivial for them to do, and unless they're offering to help foot that bill, they're putting all the risk on the developer which isn't really fair.
"All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts," - Acts 2 44:46
Just saying, old school church was pretty big on sharing.
The 8th of The Ten Commandments, Thou Shalt Not Steal, seems the closest direct answer to our question but also raises an age-old piracy dispute – is copying theft?
I'm no theologian, but considering the writing of Exodus is dated around 500 BC, and based upon much older oral traditions, and any formal idea of intellectual property being a much more recent invention, I don't think the context of the 10 Commandments would consider copying theft.
The comparison to Jesus and the loaves and fishes also seems quite apt. Jesus seeds.
I wish there were something like DarkMX, only FOSS and more popular, or like Retroshare, only limited to that usage, easier to use and less buggy, and again more popular.
Something like aMule, but anonymous, performant for many small files on the network, allowing to share directory structures etc.
Yeah the fear mongering works. I was getting cease and dissits, BT traffic blocked, etc when I was using to get public domain content back in 2000 something. Now every that does it talks about how to do it safely. Use a VPS in a non-five eyes country with Tor enabled and logging disabled, download to your tails desktop and sneaker net to main machine, from there use media server to host it in your network, blah blah blah
Or use duck duck go and click through a dozen links and stream it.
Heck even peertube users get flak from governments because it could be seen as "redistribution".
P2P is almost always a better for user technology, but centralization is favored by governments for control and corporations for rent seeking.
Truthfully BT is about to explode with DHT once bitmagnet implements indexing it will be game over. You can just point it at a folder with your files and every torrent that ever contained that file will be seeded automatically no matter what folder or name it has. Everyone has gig connections now.
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