GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

Post by xtracto » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

chme wrote: post #229

Hamuko wrote: post #115

> Specifically, at the URL, the Repository hosts and offers for download the Project, which, when downloaded, provides the downloader everything necessary to launch and host a “clone” infringing website identical to Nyaa.si (and, thus, engage in massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows). I'd like for Motion Picture Association to publish a step-by-step guide on how I can engage in mass…

Well copyright is, when it comes down to it, not very logical. In the digital world every picture, video, audio or other copyrighted material is represented as a number, which can pretty much be any number, if the encoding can be freely chosen. Transferring and storing those numbers (looking at you π) could be a copyright violation or not, pretty much just depending on the intent. Because proving intent is very diffi…

Post by colonwqbang » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 8:57 PM UTC

TheDong wrote: post #192

astrange wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This year many high profile campaigns that spent the most money also lost, and the ones that won by spending the most were not "corporate" but were Bernie aligned.

While you may be able to point to one or two anomalies, we need more than that. If the MPA has the ear of 70% of congress, that's still enough to have their way on legislation, regardless of a few fringe elements. As far as I can tell, there's not a large trend that this is changing currently. The candidate that spends the most still wins 70-80% of the time: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/winning-vs-s…

  receiving funding => being popular => winning

  being popular => receiving funding => winning

Post by xtracto » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 8:57 PM UTC

m4rtink wrote: post #203

ratww wrote: post #36

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> What's next, hard disk manufacturers? Internet providers? You're joking, but in some countries there are taxes on blank recording media: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

In the Czech Republic you need to pay this levy on blank media (see point number 1 & 6 on https://www.mkcr.cz/frequently-asked-questions-953.html?lang... ) to a shadowy state mandated cartel of "designated rightholders" where the money preaty much disappears from the face of the Earth. AFAIK there is no way around it, even in professional environment - we build a couple hard drives for a an internal company server an…

Post by Shared404 » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 9:01 PM UTC

Aerroon wrote: post #233

whateveracct wrote: post #222

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> by enabling directory indexing and uploading MP4s? this shows how the MPAA is a short hop away from saying possessing a DRM-free mp4 is tantamount to intent to infringe on copyright

Copyright advocates in the past have successfully argued that empty CDs are tantamount to copyright infringement. Some countries (Spain) have even had (still does?) a tax on HDDs and SSDs. You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it. We've already made that hop.

Post by alasdair_ » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

einpoklum wrote: post #195

astrange wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This year many high profile campaigns that spent the most money also lost, and the ones that won by spending the most were not "corporate" but were Bernie aligned.

Sanders, despite some reformist tendencies, is a also corporate-aligned. He is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party and of its pro-corporate leadership; supports the military-industrial complex and most (not all) of its foreign interventions; and recently voted for the CARES act, which transferred huge amounts of wealth to large corporations. Those "Bernie-aligned" elected members of the house have just recent…