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I guess this is exactly what Apple thinks when they remove root from your devices.
$ sudo whoami root
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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>(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 singab…
>The fansub quantity, for sure, has decreased, but not the quality. Speedsubs are no longer a concern for fansubbing these days.
That's exactly why the quality has gone down, due to these speed subs. Back in the day speed subs were not a thing. They popped up when legal subs started popping up, almost as a way to compete.
I think the first big name speed sub group was horriblesubs, and they still exist today. Today fansubs are dominated by these groups. They're quality is okay to good. Sometimes they're the only option now, so I'd say the quality has gone down.
Back in the 4:3 days when anime was vbr and sources were interlaced fansub groups would go through frame by frame doing pulldown and denoising. It was amazing. They'd have high quality karaoke in the opening and ending scenes. When's the last time you've seen high quality karaoke on fansubs?
No, quality has gone down. They don't even do color correction today. Maybe in the last 3 years or so fansub quality has gone up a bit, but it's not a lot.. not enough for me to notice much.
>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.
Yah. You don't often see translation notes any more either.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#264Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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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.
Is there a history of bad faith claims in the courts? I suspect there isn't or at best very limited. It goes like this:
1. MPA sends a notice, content is taken down/disabled
2a) No response to takedown notice is sent, because the next step MPA can take after that is to take you to court. If you win the best case scenario is you recover your legal costs (but not the time). Content stays down.
2b) A response to takedown notice is sent, content gets restored. MPA doesn't go to court, unless it's a slam dunk case or it's important enough to bully someone into submission with legal costs (you pay those out of your pocket with hope of maybe getting most of it back at some point, possibly years later). Victim doesn't go to court for compensation, because it's almost certain that even with a resounding win what they recover is going to be less than legal fees.
The actual number of cases that see the courtroom is likely very, very small.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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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 singab…
>The fansub quantity, for sure, has decreased, but not the quality. Speedsubs are no longer a concern for fansubbing these days. That's exactly why the quality has gone down, due to these speed subs. Back in the day speed subs were not a thing. They popped up when legal subs started popping up, almost as a way to compete. I think the first big name speed sub group was horriblesubs, and they still exist today. Today f…
I'm talking about speedsubs as something distinct from rips of professional simulcasts; I don't consider those fansubs at all.
Real fansub groups used to compete to be the first to release their translations, so you wouldn't have translation checks or as many editing passes.
Nowadays, the simulcasts (and the rips thereof) are faster than any speedsub could possibly be, so the remaining fansubbers definitely put more effort into quality.
> Back in the 4:3 days when anime was vbr and sources were interlaced fansub groups would go through frame by frame doing pulldown and denoising. It was amazing.
You don't need to do denoising and deinterlacing these days, so... I'm not sure why you think things were better back then? Nowadays encoders are more concerned about banding in particular, so they may specifically add noise on a scene-by-scene basis.
> When's the last time you've seen high quality karaoke on fansubs?
If you get actual fansubs these days instead of simulcast rips, you'll find they have high quality karaoke. I particularly remember the Railgun S karaoke which had realistic-looking lightning striking each syllable. And more recently, you may find the English translations have been worded so that you can sing along in time with the original song.
> You don't often see translation notes any more either.
If you're talking about TL notes in the subtitles themselves, they really went out of style. Nobody wants to be the next "Translator's note: keikaku means plan".
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 singab…
>The fansub quantity, for sure, has decreased, but not the quality. Speedsubs are no longer a concern for fansubbing these days. That's exactly why the quality has gone down, due to these speed subs. Back in the day speed subs were not a thing. They popped up when legal subs started popping up, almost as a way to compete. I think the first big name speed sub group was horriblesubs, and they still exist today. Today f…
I'm not sure if I'd count Horriblesubs as speedsubs. They didn't make their own subs, they just ripped the official subs (which is why they called them horrible). The group shut down a few months ago.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#268The MPA seems to be getting braver with these takedowns, considering how quickly the youtube-dl one got flipped around. This one seems particularly shaky as you could not use it to explicitly download anything - rather to host data of your own (with no explicit requirement for it to be unauthorized copyright violation). EDIT: perhaps just a ploy to unmask the authors of the torrent site?
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…
You can’t “counter-sue” for misuse of copyright, nor is it a “normal punishment.” It’s a defence you can use to avoid liability when someone else sues you, and an exceptional one at that [1]. As noted on Wikipedia, the court in Lasercomb [2] made it clear that copyright misuse does not render the copyright permanently unenforceable:
> This holding, of course, is not an invalidation of Lasercomb's copyright. Lasercomb is free to bring a suit for infringement once it has purged itself of the misuse.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20100516061057/http://bulk.resou...
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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And if not loyal to an artist it is a genera or station. Classical music listeners can get Bach from a number of different artists, if a few are missing they typically can get by with the others. If someone puts a station on Pandora it will be a long time before they notice that something is missing. With TV there is a long standing character development to get people interested in something in particular. With music…
Even loyalty to an artist is overrated. Tidal had exclusivity with some of the biggest names in music with dedicated fanbases and this mostly got people to sign up for the one-month free trial and cancel. Beyonce and Jay-Z moved back onto Spotify. This is a model that is proven not to work.
To be fair, there is also a difference between streaming shows and music.
For shows, I sit on my couch and either open Netflix or Prime Video, and then start the show I'm going to be watching the next hour.
For music, I have Spotify playlists for different moods/genres. If a specific song/artist is not on Spotify, too bad, but I'm not going to stop cooking, wash my hands, go to my phone to switch apps, go back to cooking, stop again in 10 mins. to go back to Spotify
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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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.
Is there a history of bad faith claims in the courts? I suspect there isn't or at best very limited. It goes like this: 1. MPA sends a notice, content is taken down/disabled 2a) No response to takedown notice is sent, because the next step MPA can take after that is to take you to court. If you win the best case scenario is you recover your legal costs (but not the time). Content stays down. 2b) A response to takedow…
IANAL but best I can tell it is with regards to filing the takedown notice rather than taking them to court. If it is just the sending of a takedown notice, then holy fuck have they abused it.