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lol! they got the year wrong 😉
Why is it a waste of time?
You’re saying that the GitHub can support the code of their users and protect it?
Thanks!
@Dimitris: In my opinion, it’s a waste of time because all of this data is already out in the world. It’s a waste of money because they’re paying lawyers hundreds of dollars an hour to file these DMCA motions and prepare C&D notices, but none of that is going to make that information magically disappear from the internet.
Offtopic: I want to bring it to your attention about the huge number of spam posts in the Open Hardware summit forums (openhardwaresummit.org/forum/). Another thing I noticed is phpBB not using the rel=”nofollow” attribute for hyperlinks in the posts. I guess this would allow the spam links to acquire some google juice.
@johngineer
Thanks! That’s what I think too. They just have to go with it, there’s no turning back now. We’ll hack everything we can get our hands on 😀
Something else I’m thinking right now: I’m wondering if the “human detector” underneath, for the comments, work for colorblind people? 🙂
@Dimitris Tzortzis – you wrote “Something else I’m thinking right now: I’m wondering if the “human detector” underneath, for the comments, work for colorblind people? :)”
yes.
@adafruit
Ok, great 🙂