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colinbartlett
GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.
hulitu
You are not supposed to download anything from Github. /s
mlhpdx
They may not need to go so far as this to protect their service, but I would accept that any access required occasional authentication. Unfettered, unlimited anonymous access seems dubious in this “I’m taking all your content” AI training world.
TheCleric
It would also be, in my opinion, very against the spirit of Open Source to require an account to download code for a piece of software.