India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls

When is it supposed to kick in? Because it sure hasn't been done yet.

Edit: Blatant misinformation

While the underlying court order was reversed many months ago, some Indians continue to have trouble accessing parts of the website.

Remember when India blocked the official website for VLC?

At what point can we all just acknowledge that copyright law has become a public nuisance in its current form

The fediverse can't reach source forges fast enough...

VPN time for indians

The main Github.com domain was still accessible but raw.githubusercontent.com, where code is typically stored, was blocked.

Some days, like today, I regret commenting TorrentFreak out of my RSS feed reader.

It's kind of funny, but it's also kind of scary that not having access to Github would probably significantly impact a lot of companies and services. It would definitely impact me.

Oh well. We can always move to Sourcehut, right?

I read that Linux usage is much higher in India (I think ~13% vs 5% in the US, though the statistics are probably outdated). I am totally ignorant when it comes to India, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm wondering if the rise of Linux users has something to do with the government trying to limit access to Github.

Guess Gitlab is about to get a shot in the arm from india.

Again? Hadn't this happened before?

Wait, you guys aren't europeen yet?!

I would block even more services from Microsoft, why not. Go to other git sources.

Good news. Hopefully this will help to finally break the de facto monopoly of Microsoft's GitHub and bring the distributed aspect of Git - away from gatekeeper platforms - back into the foreground.

Good. Indians and other third world countries need to be blocked from using the internet.