The Demand Curve That Files Itself

Anthropic accidentally shipped Claude Code's source in an npm release. Within hours, 8,100 repositories mirrored it. Developers started rewriting it in Rust. GitHub's DMCA repo absorbed the takedown notice — alongside notices for coding fonts, Unity assets, JetBrains cracks, and Mercedes-Benz source code. Read together, they stop looking like a legal archive and start looking like a shadow demand…