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

Post by ohgodplsno » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 7:24 AM UTC

zadokshi wrote: post #248

Shared404 wrote: post #238

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> 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?

Post by chme » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 7:39 AM UTC

kobalsky wrote: post #289

chme wrote: post #229

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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…

We could distribute pirated movies with pi. 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.

Post by almaember » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 7:40 AM UTC

DCKing wrote: post #49

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?

> Microsoft would never do that unless their hands were forced. Too much potential business with them. The upside of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub (and the entire strategy that resulted in the acquisition) is that Microsoft has created incentives for themselves to have GitHub being regarded as a truly open platform that you can depend on. Having repositories exposed to flimsy DMCA takedowns is not part of that. M…

Post by tpxl » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 8:59 AM UTC

jitendrac wrote: post #13

Torrents were great threat in past years, but now in world with streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime,Hulu and all others torrent is not a serious threat. So,that's a baseless argument, Its like don't sell knives they can be used to murder. Torrents are also useful for many others purposes, like distribution of big opensource software, downloading files with unreliable connection and slow speed, to distribute…

Post by astrange » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 9:28 AM UTC

proverbialbunny wrote: post #263

CarVac wrote: post #256

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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…