[pwinnski]

I'm curious, if an arbitrary GitHub repo suddenly started attracting hundreds of terabytes of egress, violating GitHub's ToS, would GitHub manage traffic in coordination with the repo's owner, or would they disable the repo and suspend the account?

I suspect the latter. I don't know how to make a repo public but limit web traffic to it. Do you?

[pseudosavant]

I could see disabling viewing raw links. But if the repo becomes popular to fork what would GH do? The friction of using git instead of HTTP will prevent 99.9% of hotlinking. So it probably couldn’t become too popular.