Comment Comment by hannob We're not the authors of those packages. But we own many others.1. We're not obfuscating pingbacks.2./3. We're raising an exception with an explanation and a link.Just look at the code of one of our packages: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/codecsThe research in 2016 was done by someone else. The kinda crazy thing is: Some of the package names he used were made available again after that instead of being blocked... And now we own them. parent hannob 9 years ago
1. We're not obfuscating pingbacks.
2./3. We're raising an exception with an explanation and a link.
Just look at the code of one of our packages: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/codecs
The research in 2016 was done by someone else. The kinda crazy thing is: Some of the package names he used were made available again after that instead of being blocked... And now we own them.