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GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not a lawyer but this feels like a fantasy to me. It seems crazy the MPA would take such a risk if they thought it was likely.
You have not met the staff of these orgs. It is actually not exaggeration to say they live in a media bubble where their studio chiefs are captains of industry that are infallible and are to be served with total fealty. I once sat in a meeting where some VP at a major client asked (because they were technically daft) if it was possible -in not so many words- DDOS google because "they (google) have all this infringing…
> studio chiefs are captains of industry that are infallible and are to be served with total fealty
Harvey Weinstein was taken down. I wonder if others will be.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201105144800/https://codeload.... Have at 'em. .docker/es_sync_config.json .docker/nyaa-config-partial.py config.example.py migrations/versions/2bceb2cb4d7c_add_comment_count_to_torrent.py nyaa/api_handler.py nyaa/static/search-sukebei.xml nyaa/templates/home.html nyaa/torrents.py utils/api_info.py utils/api_uploader_v2.py
The smoking gun is right there in config.example.py: TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret' TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'
How is that a smoking gun?
It connects with a tracker, which might be used to help distribute copyrighted works illegally, but also any other types of files.
It's possible I'm not getting your sarcasm.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#214This site is mainly used to share Japanese media. The streaming services have really dropped the ball in this area. They either don't simulcast to other parts of the world (netflix), offer terrible subtitles that are worse than fan translations (netflix, crunchyroll), or just plain never release content for international audiences. I pay for every relevant streaming service I can, and even when I can access legal, of…
> offer terrible subtitles that are worse than fan translations (netflix, crunchyroll) This is true sometimes, but usually it's not true because nobody does fansubs anymore. Most subtitled torrents are copies of the official subtitles. (Also you can't judge a translation unless you speak Japanese.)
>(Also you can't judge a translation unless you speak Japanese.)
That may be part of the problem with the industry. The average viewer is none the wiser, so the translation industry gets to make a subpar product and get away with it. If it wasn't for fansubs, they'd have a monopoly. Thankfully, the industry has spent the last 10+ years competing with fan subs instead of outright trying to nuke them and it shows. Subs (and dubs) were far far worse not that long ago.
Ironically or perhaps paradoxically, as professional made dubs and subs have increased in quality fansubs have decreased in quality. It's almost like fansubs are giving the industry a push forward.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#215Can someone knowledgeable explain to me how a tracker source code violates DMCA? What's next, hard disk manufacturers? Internet providers?
> by virtue of the operation and further development of the Bittorrent website Nyaa.si’s “nyaa” repository (the “Project”) Basically the fact that the world's most predominant installation of the site (Nyaa.si) is serving a whole bunch of copyrighted materials through torrents makes the code itself violate DMCA.
I guess most user use Chrome to access that site, does it making Chrome violate DMCA?
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personal computers make copyright infringement possible. They need to go .
Well... they already succeeded in screwing some hardware and software this way. When Windows Vista was about to launch, MPAA pushed hard for DVD copy protection, this resulted in a sudden push against CRT monitors, in favor of then lower quality LCD, to force the usage of HDMI cables (because they have DRM), they also pushed hard for Microsoft to change what soundcards were allowed to do, again because of DRM. This c…
> were about to have breakthrough in lightweight CRT
Never heard of this. There's a limit on how lightweight a CRT can be, compared to what amounts to essentially a large chip. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Also, unless this breakthrough no longer used an electron gun, they are power hogs.
> to force the usage of HDMI cables
What's preventing one from driving a CRT with a HDMI signal? You can generate the analog signals the CRT needs quite easily. This is in fact done by dirt cheap dongles today.
> where the game would raytrace the audio, calculating it reflecting, refracting and difracting around the 3D models, allowing for sound simulations that let players to figure out the environment by audio alone
Why can't we do this today? This can in fact be done by GPUs. Possibly even in the CPU.
The way I understand there are a few reasons why people stopped buying sound cards:
* Capabilities such as MIDI and pre-loaded instruments were no longer used. Games had more space to burn so they just used digitized waveforms
* The built-in audio became "good enough". Any built-in cheap can output audio at high sample rates. Decent audio can be provided even from the analog outputs, not to mention digital signals carried by optical outputs, HDMI, Display Port. Some of these may not even be routed through the audio card
* Similarly, many people use USB headsets. They have their own audio device. In fact, many computers have multiple - in my case, my camera has one, the Oculus has another, so does the monitor. All through USB or DisplayPort
* Most sound processing tasks are not really that taxing on a modern system. Thief might be an exception and even then, given some AMD and NVidia offerings, this is probably doable without dedicated audio processing hardware
* Also Creative had a chokehold on the industry as a whole. Lots of libraries and products were purchased or killed. They still make audio cards today, but I can't understand why.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
The smoking gun is right there in config.example.py: TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret' TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'
How is that a smoking gun? It connects with a tracker, which might be used to help distribute copyrighted works illegally, but also any other types of files. It's possible I'm not getting your sarcasm.
It's a sarcastic joke, nothing there but a place holder for your own API key and you would have to set it up. There's no place like 127.0.0.1. :D
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#218Now I know about nyaa.si. Cheers MPA. Could you guys DMCA something reminiscent of tvtorrents.com? Man that place was great for finding stuff to watch.
You really want to go to private trackers to get quality over quantity.
I'd share public sites, but I'm not sure if it breaks the rules.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
The smoking gun is right there in config.example.py: TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret' TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'
How is that a smoking gun? It connects with a tracker, which might be used to help distribute copyrighted works illegally, but also any other types of files. It's possible I'm not getting your sarcasm.
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Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sooner or later, one of these projects will counter-sue for misuse of copyright. Misuse of copyright is when a copyright holder attempts to illegitimately expand the rights granted to them by their copyright in some work (in this case, quashing competition from distribution channels that are used to distribute unrelated copyrighted material). The normal punishment for misuse of copyright is the rendering of the copyr…
IANAL, and my limited legal knowledge is not of US law. However, if you have copyrights which are of vast economic significance, to a very large number of copyrighted works, it seems unlikely that the law would would deprive you of all of that due to your suing someone for infringement. That seems highly disproportionate. Now, don't get me wrong, I have no sympathies for the MPAA, but are you sure you're not overstat…
The penalties in these cases have historically been pretty disproportionate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse
In Lasercomb v. Reynolds, and Practice Management Information v. American Medical Association the existence of an abusive licensing agreement allowed third parties to simply violate the copyright.
So, assuming misuse of copyright was found, precedent suggests the copyrights that were being misused would be rendered unenforceable.
A case finding that bad faith DMCA take downs amounted to misuse of copyright would be setting a new legal precedent, but, based on the facts in multiple recent DMCA takedowns, such a finding wouldn't be a huge logical leap.