Thanks .... I must have missed that github did this too (been a while since I tried to post a download there, but I have a number of active Google Code projects).

I wonder if it gives them some kind of safe harbour from the copyright industry. Perhaps a Google Code download is a "download from Google" vs a Google Drive download being a "download from that user".

> I wonder if it gives them some kind of safe harbour from the copyright industry.

FWIW, when I search, I see quite a lot of abuse reports for malware; this may have little to nothing to do with the copyright industry (against whom they already have a safe harbor for user-submitted content due to the DMCA.)

I imagine it could still be a kind of "safe harbour" issue.

If a user downloads malware from Google Code, it seems like there's at least some tiny chance they might try to sue Google for it. If they download it from a personal Google Drive account, it will be a lot harder to convince a court that Google had a responsibility for the content.

It's sad that your ignorant comment is at the top of this thread.

Actually after GitHub's move, I see many GitHub projects just provided their download link at Google Code. Basically they created a Google Code project just for the download section, even not bother to push the code there.