Second – Even for websites that do not have that luxury, if you get a good host they will typically just forward the DMCA complaint back to you. They have no ability to just remove content from the server, even if it was possible for them to get in — they don’t know where the files are stored or how the database worked (and would open themselves up to a lawsuit).

Yea, well this number will drop to a fraction of what it is now if Github continues to delete people’s code that they spent hours of devotion on to please a copyright troll and take their DMCA notices at face value.

Doesn’t seem like a team platform I would want to work on, as there are alternates. Like a personal install of Microsofts Team foundation servers and other collaborative applications that are available.