DMCA of Bitcoin-related software

[NotATether]

Have you guys heard of the Claude Code source leak that happened like a week ago, where it was posted on Github and Anthropic was aggressively sending DMCA takedown notices for the repos on Github? And then some guy used AI and millions of tokens to rewrite it in Rust in just a few hours so that DMCA would not apply.

That fork still lives today.

Anyway, it had me thinking, in the event that some exchange or DeFi platform were to accidentally publish their proprietary source code, I wonder if there would be people dedicated enough to make a rewrite clone.

We all know that such code would be useful for informational purposes.

But would it allow us to identify scams and phishing pages more easily, with knowledge of what the platform is supposed to do?

[NeuroticFish]

But would it allow us to identify scams and phishing pages more easily, with knowledge of what the platform is supposed to do?

Well, a phishing site can just show a similar page, no need to copy or pretend functionality. So there it would not help; the original site needs be smart in order to make phishers' life harder.

Scams? Just see the cloud mining sites that show pictures of actual hardware and show some random numbers for hash rate and income and people fall for that; exchanges with fake orders can probably also be made, but why, the effort looks big imho.

Selective scams? Yes, those still happen and maybe there some knowledge would help to identify them fast. But also a public copy of an existing exchange would even make the scammers' life easier.

Scrutiny? If I'd have my exchange and have my code public, I would internally use at very least a modified version of that, for my own business' security.



Overall maybe I lack imagination, but I find somewhat debatable the usefulness for the average Joe of such code becoming public.

[ABCbits]

Anyway, it had me thinking, in the event that some exchange or DeFi platform were to accidentally publish their proprietary source code, I wonder if there would be people dedicated enough to make a rewrite clone.

That may happen if the leaked code have more functionality or other benefit that isn't exist on current open-source exchange or DeFi code. But i expect big exchange/DeFi have complex infrastructure, where single leak isn't enough to replicate them.

But would it allow us to identify scams and phishing pages more easily, with knowledge of what the platform is supposed to do?

Scammer these days already can misuse AI to clone website/app appearance with less effort/time, and with convincing UI design. So i doubt source code leak would give significant benefit for the scammer.