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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

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Post by Shared404 »

zadokshi wrote: post #248
Shared404 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Maybe I'm only kidding. Who knows?

But yes, and probably.

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

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Post by appleflaxen »

room500 wrote: post #103
bitcharmer wrote: post #3

Can someone knowledgeable explain to me how a tracker source code violates DMCA? What's next, hard disk manufacturers? Internet providers?

It is stated in the complaint: > 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). This is not a generic BitTorrent tracker. This is source code for du…

all of those topics can have legitimate, non-infringing content; such as fan fiction released under a permissive license.

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

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Post by h_anna_h »

While I am against DMCAs I find it amusing to be honest, it is kinda like karma. The nyaa.si people commonly engaged in censorship of their issue tracker at github (even if all parties were polite and the issue was closed they ended up locking and deleting issues afterwards). In addition in their early days they engaged in a "fake news" campaign against the other nyaa clone (nyaa.si is a clone of the original nyaa). Finally they never provided their database to the public, so if it dies or if someone wants to make another clone they have to scrape the whole site. (there was a lot of drama when the original nyaa died because nobody had an updated database and they had to work with an outdated one. The other nyaa clone offered a copy of its database. When I asked one of the members of nyaa.si I was offered a pathetic excuse on how it would be too hard to write an sql query).

And to be honest the nyaa.si devs would not care about this whole thing at all. They admitted that they published the code to github because they were tired of the "foss nerds" whining.

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

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Post by Shank »

chaosharmonic wrote: post #235
Macha wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I subscribe to Crunchyroll, Netflix, Prime Video, and Funimation. Or in other words, 100% of services with streaming anime available in my country. To be fair, seasonal anime gets a good coverage with those. Netflix's player is pretty good, but the rest vary from meh to awful (I have never successfully changed the timestamp in Funimation's player without playback crashing within the next minute). But back catal…

> the Made in Abyss movie actually did show up on a pay per view non-region locked streaming service and... that's literally it. Made in Abyss? You mean the show that spent its entire broadcast run locked behind two paywalls? Re:Creators is another one that went criminally underrated thanks to the travesty that was Anime Strike.

Made in Abyss Movie 3: Dawn of the Deep Soul was released on eventive so that you could stream it, as a result of COVID-19. Without COVID-19, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have landed on there, since it was primarily a substitution for going to actual in-person screenings, which were cancelled in April 2020.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Fabricio20 wrote: post #249
toomuchtodo wrote: post #149

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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

I would store the data on the bitcoin chain because there is an enormous amount of value (hundreds of billions of dollars) that hinges on the continued existence of that chain.

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

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Post by CarVac »

proverbialbunny wrote: post #214
astrange wrote: post #164

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> 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…

The current pro translators have learned from the fansubbers and often use the same tools; some even are former fansubbers.

Thus they've largely kicked fanmade speedsubs out of the "market".

The fansub quantity, for sure, has decreased, but not the quality. Speedsubs are no longer a concern for fansubbing these days.

Meanwhile, the remaining fansubbers are competing by maximizing quality, with features such as singable song translations and full sign typesetting. But you end up with up to weeklong delays between airing and fansub release.

As far as purely translation quality goes, pro translations are much better than they used to be, but speaking as an amateur translator myself I always think it's good for the viewer to have alternative interpretations for more difficult-to-translate passages.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

fireattack wrote: post #145
chewzerita wrote: post #21

I thought GitHub said they were going to assume good faith by the repository and allow it to stay up until a ruling has been decided (as well as funding legal costs), rather than immediately taking it down under the hand of the "rightsholder". Did I misread their previous statement after the youtube-dl fiasco?

Nothing will change much, as soon as GitHub is still a user-generated content host. They have to follow DMCA safe harbor practice, which is to obey the claim until proven false, in trade with not get sued themselves as a host.

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

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Post by kaszanka »

zadokshi wrote: post #248
Shared404 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

It's not as if it will actually have any consequences.
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