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It's definitely used for pirated stuff.

Put any technical book title into google with site:github.com in it and click the first PDF that shows up.



There's also a font piracy site that simply trawls public Github repos for the font's filename


Ah, so that’s why the site’s so trigger-happy with the excessive-activity bans that it’s nearly unusable unless you’re logged in.


And cloud tokens and other credentials. Those get scraped super fast.




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