Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
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A Photopea developer reports that GitHub has not removed multiple pirated versions of their software despite requests over a month. The unauthorized copies, created by extracting and modifying the original JavaScript code, remain publicly available on the platform.
Why it mattersThis highlights a potential gap in GitHub's intellectual property enforcement process, affecting independent developers who rely on platform moderation to protect their work from unauthorized redistribution.
From the source: I am a developer of https://www.photopea.com, a popular photo editor that runs in a web browser. Many people are asking AI models to take the Javascript code from my website, remove all ads from it, and they publish such a "new product" on Github for everyone to download. There exist tens of such…Read at news.ycombinator.com