[xaiki]

Well hello there, I'd like to share a story with you. I'm the maintainer of butterproject.org and have been maintaining popcorntime.io for a while, we had there 2 issues with GitHub a few years ago, both related to (unfounded) copyright claims on the butter and popcorntime code (we absolutely own the right to every single line there), when we tried to make our case we were ignored once and asked to 'keep things quiet' by side channels the second time. Most likely, the mpaa, didn't want us to exist and GitHub complied with shutting down our repos and sending a cese and desist to all our 800ish forks (at a time where we were trying to transform BitTorrent media streaming into a viable business plan).

Maybe it's time we build our core infrastructure on something else than companies that act irrationally when threatened to be sued ?

[rckclmbr]

popcorntime was strictly confrontational, and was blatantly illegal. "Transforming BitTorrent media streaming" can be a good goal, but doing it illegally will cause you to be shut down. Remember grooveshark? They tried the same thing -- to create a legit service that disrupts and industry. But there's a reason they failed and spotify succeeded, and I think it's because they partnered with existing companies instead of tried to act in direct opposition.

[jacquesm]

But their source code wasn't illegal.