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

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Post by swirepe »

femto113 wrote: post #190
Hamuko wrote: post #181

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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'

A smoking gun is just circumstantial evidence.

The real damning thing in that repository are the few lines that play Toy Story 2 if you run them.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

c0d4h wrote: post #239
afavour wrote: post #70

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It's weird that we expect Github to do that, in a way. The repo might well be hosted on there for free, but we all want Github to spend a ton in legal fees to defend something they make zero cash from. I'm not sure what my point is here other than finding it sad that code hosting is so centralised.

A better way would be to start excluding MPA and their behaviour in our open source licenses.

>A better way would be to start excluding MPA and their behaviour in our open source licenses.

This is a remarkably good idea. Add an explicit clause to major open source project licenses that disallow use by the MPAA and similar groups, along with enough explicit damages spelled out to give it teeth.

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

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Post by sebastien_b »

AWildC182 wrote: post #209
c2h5oh wrote: post #148

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Actually no. DMCA is super one sided. All you need for DMCA takedown notice is "a good faith belief" that reported content is infringing copyright you own (or is owned by someone you represent). The opposing party has to prove that the claim was knowingly false and malicious for the claimant to be charged with perjury. The opposing party has to prove actual damages in court to get any compensation. You may get legal…

I suspect one could make a case, given the history of the MPA/MPAA that they've left both the realm of "good faith" and "belief" long ago. Each incident doesn't get to occur in a vacuum. You can't claim blissful ignorance forever.

Could GitHub mount a case on this - that they (MPA) have been making so many of these these bogus 'good faith belief' requests over time that those words don't actually have any meaning anymore to them, and as such have been lying through their teeth when making them now?

That would make it interesting...

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

einpoklum wrote: post #183
fartcannon wrote: post #37

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Microsoft would never do that unless their hands were forced. Too much potential business with them. We could try forcing their hands by removing all our code from Github?

I'm anxiously waiting for a quit-GitHub movement. I hold my source code there because of its popularity and "defaultish" nature. Of course I can go someplace else right now, but then people won't find my software.

You can make GH be just a mirror

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

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Post by Throwaway2021v2 »

jniedrauer wrote: post #110

This 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…

I personally think renting content is a joke, let alone renting censored content.

For example, why would anyone want to rent a censored version of Interspecies Reviewers - which is a show about brothels and prostitutes and sex?

And let's not foreget that Western companies like Funimation censor Blu-ray releases.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/02/02/for-second-time-fu...

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

munk-a wrote: post #188
fartcannon wrote: post #165

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Github is as independent from Microsoft as WhatsApp is from Facebook.

Thankfully I am not yet required to sign on to github using 2FA that can only be confirmed on a Zune. Microsoft has been pretty good at leveraging github for the publicity of supporting developers (hosting informational streams and the like) while leaving the platform pretty independent. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft viewed Github like McDonalds views the Ronald McDonald House - a long term PR investment that'…

> Thankfully I am not yet required to sign on to github using 2FA that can only be confirmed on a Zune.

Strawman: Microsoft doesn't require you to come from their hardware for any of their properties, and of course Zune is a dead platform.

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

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Post by zadokshi »

Shared404 wrote: post #238
Aerroon wrote: post #233

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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.

> You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it. Well, if we've already payed for it... Jokes aside, every time I start feeling vaguely guilty about pirating something (which I only do from large corps, not indies) something like this pops up.

Does admitting such things demonstrate a lack of wisdom? Does copyright infringement monitoring extend to comments on public forums?

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

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Post by Fabricio20 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #149
niea_11 wrote: post #125

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You can still download the zip file of the repository through archive.org. And there is no direct link (took a quick look) to copyrighted content in the source code. If they shutdown the main site, without a data backup, the code is useless. Users will have to re-upload and re-seed the torrents they have.

Tangentially, I'm interested in the concept of the torrent data moving into something somewhat indestructible by also highly available, such as the bitcoin blockchain. Your torrent site then "mounts" the blockchain, scanning the chain for the torrent data (magnet URIs) necessary to bootstrap a corpus.

What you are describing is sorta already a thing, take a look at sia[0], which is a coin? used to purchase long-term data storage. You can't really scan the chain as far as I understand it but why not host the entire index on sia as well?

[0]: https://sia.tech

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