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And in the Netherlands those used to make sense. As downloading copyrighted material was legal for personal use https://mashable.com/2014/04/10/downloading-pirated-content-...
I think the basis is that you're still allowed to make private copies of CDs/DVDs/etc pretty much throughout EU.
"and/or GitHub’s Terms of Service, which prohibit use of your facilities for copyright infringement, see https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service. "
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>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.
https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/nyaadevs
This mirror shows up in DDG search (which uses Microsoft/Bing for its results)
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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…
Exactly... that was demonstrated with DeCSS and AACS a long time ago, with shirts printed with colors "encoding" the magic number and whatnot. I would love for someone to actually code this in the "rockstar" language. With sufficient "base" conversions, you could make any program be represented by the constitution.
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> Because I imagine at some point in the guide they'd tell me to generate torrent files of copyrighted files I have and upload them to the site, which is really outside of this project. One of the files they link to is a utility for uploading torrent files (/utils/api_uploader_v2.py). As far as I can tell, it doesn't generate the torrent files, just uploads them.
Torrent files in general, yes. Torrent files are not, by default, any sort of legal infringement.
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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.
It seems to me that they are deliberately conflating "infringing someone's copyright" and "using to infringe someone's copyright" - there's a difference between "you have my copyrighted code in your github" and "you are providing software that can be used for copying my movie" - the first is what DMCA notices are for, not the second
> linking users to an online location containing [...] infringing activity
Extremely broad, but a link to a file sharing site with infringing content is also infringing. The DMCA notice can be used against the site containing the link.
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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.
> 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…
Just publish the digit offset from where to start and how many digits to calculate.
The offset would probably be an infintely huge number, but I wonder if they could technically DMCA you for hosting it.
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No, but GHE is paid software. And not like it's impossible to migrate, it's just a fancy git frontend after all. Gogs/Gitea/Gitlab CE is completely capable of doing what it does.
Cost of migrating from GHE to something else usually exceeds the cost of GHE itself. Migrations generally are non trivial. They don't generally happen just to push one's principles.
Even then, it's possible that just companies that planned to buy GHE will simply not buy it and use something open source instead.