Even the Discord and Buymeacoffee page got taken down. This is larger than any other DMCA I know of
Edit: even the Telegram has been nuked. Yup, Telegram
Yet another reminder that GitHub is not your friend, but also that borderline projects shouldn’t be hosted on anyone else’s server other than your own, you’ll possess all the repository data, but you’ll also be made to shut down anyway if on the clearnet, so I wonder if it’s possible to host a forge through Tor/i2p or others.
Still, this is clearly wrong on who sent the DMCA, the apps never host the content, I hope they can get back up.
Exactly GitHub is owned by Microsoft
The dev of Saikou made an announcement on the Discord about this
What the deuce is Chouten? I could not find a thing about it
I doubt this is larger than when MegaUpload got DMCA’d.
But yes, it’s pretty big.
Yeah, I mean any Anime related app takedown
Hopefully they had backups elsewhere. This is why piracy apps need to at least try a little to not make their github so obviously a piracy app.
I hope @[email protected] updates reiverr to use open source movies from the blender studio for the images/gifs so it can be passed off as a media app for non piracy related streaming
It was pretty popular and had thousands of stars. It even trended on GitHub
So this was pretty much unavoidable.
Imo this is why big projects that are borderline like this should use github alternatives, preferably self hosted solutions. This was always going to happen.
Lol. Somebody reposted my post on reddit: reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/16v4jru/saikou_the_best_anime_streaming_app_on_android/
I don’t mind at all and am kinda happy.
Yet another hydra head falls… 😂
Question - What happens if we are hosting a Git repo ourselves, like using Gitea or something, and we receive a DMCA takedown request and we refuse? I mean, they can take down the domain, but what if weare hosting on a personal homeserver and keep changing domains whenever they take one down?
Legally, you cannot refuse. DMCA is written such that the host must take down first and ask questions later.
Then it’s your choice to comply, call their bluff, or do whatever you want. I’ve seen people who doxxed the DMCA sender and made threats towards the sending agent (the hoster was Russian).
Though best course of action would be to comply or ignore it, don’t do what that guy did, best to keep quiet than to stir up trouble.
Outright refusal or ignoring it does come with the risk of litigation (threats can accelerate it or lead to prosecution) assuming you’re within their jurisdiction.
Then they would sue you and could get you in prison or at least you have to pay a very large fine. Possibly millions.
They should upload the code on an .onion page
But hiding an onion address’s IP is very hard. No?
No. That’s literally the point of it.
Man when they finally git repo federation will be available…
What is git repo federation? Why will this help?
I thought git is a very decentralized technology?
Git is centralized by design.
Well, Git is still centralized. Typically there’s only one main location where work on a project happens - a Git forge like GitHub, or in the simplest scenario just an SSH server.
Federation will help because it will allow working on a project in one forge from another forge. You could e.g. create a pull request on your own self-hosted forge (e.g. Forgejo instance) and then submit that pull request on another forge that’s hosted somewhere else. GitHub taking down a repo wouldn’t be as annoying, since people would still have the main sources of their pull requests in their own forges. And GitHub wouldn’t be able to remove their fork for whatever reason.
Like Git x activityPub 🤔 seems doable, or where would be problems? Just something like pipeline, which creates an activity post including the commits🤔🤔
I’m not smart enough to understand it, but maybe these sites can help you see how they’re doing it:
Forgefed looks very good, I’ll test that out 😃
Gitea already has that.
Any fork?
I think all were also dmca’d
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/09/2023-09-20-corsearch.md
Can you link their telegram?
It’s gone
Just use aniyomi, it’s not locked to anilist
But I like Anilist. And the UI and features of Saikou
The UI of Tachiyomi isn’t made for Anime. It’s a Manga app and it’s great for that, but it’s horrible for Anime
It has anilist too, that’s what I use. I had never even heard of saikou before so haven’t used it but I’ve never had any issues with aniyomi. It’s perfectly functional in finding anything I want to watch and looks good. Can’t do anything about your subjective preferences though.
Just that Saikou isn’t just an anime streaming app. It’s also an Anilist client. And it’s beautiful and I love the animations and video player features like a skip intro button and it’s generally just beautiful. You also can read Manga with it, but I honestly prefer Tachiyomi for that.
I see. Well with the power of anime I’m sure some weeb out there will make a fork of it one way or another
Just try it. I backed it up. But you need to have an AniList account since it uses Anilist’s API for a lot of features:
