Why do folks keep forgetting that Github is Microsoft, and Redhat is IBM?
Do Github and Redhat sound cooler than Redhat and Microsoft?
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
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sanders, despite some reformist tendencies, is a also corporate-aligned. He is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party and of its pro-corporate leadership; supports the military-industrial complex and most (not all) of its foreign interventions; and recently voted for the CARES act, which transferred huge amounts of wealth to large corporations. Those "Bernie-aligned" elected members of the house have just recent…
>He is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party I'd consider this debatable. He isn't even a member of the Democratic Party, he just caucuses with them.
I didn't say "member", I said supporter; but he's effectively a key member. He:
1. Encourages people to vote for the democratic party.
2. Encourages people to run within the democratic party.
3. Was accepted and recognized as a candidate in the democratic primaries of 2016 and 2020 (even if the race was somewhat rigged against him).
4. Is endorsed by the democratic primary when he runs for Senatorship in Vermont.
5. Refrains from criticizing the leadership of the democratic party, even when their positions and policy are opposed to his stated positions.
6. Went on tour with DNC chairperson Tom Perez to convince people to support the party, after the 2016 elections.
7. If that's all not enough - he was a top appointed official of the party: Chair of senate outreach efforts as of 2016; see : https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/11/16/senate-democr...
Long gone are the days when he was any sort of an outsider to the party.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL, and my limited legal knowledge is not of US law. However, if you have copyrights which are of vast economic significance, to a very large number of copyrighted works, it seems unlikely that the law would would deprive you of all of that due to your suing someone for infringement. That seems highly disproportionate. Now, don't get me wrong, I have no sympathies for the MPAA, but are you sure you're not overstat…
The penalties in these cases have historically been pretty disproportionate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse In Lasercomb v. Reynolds, and Practice Management Information v. American Medical Association the existence of an abusive licensing agreement allowed third parties to simply violate the copyright. So, assuming misuse of copyright was found, precedent suggests the copyrights that were being misus…
The "copyrights that were being misused" seems to suggest specific copyrights. Is there precedent for voiding the copyright on Millions of works? Or even - multiple works whose individual copyright was not used specifically?
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Then those licenses would no longer be open source licenses.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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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.
I had one of those shirts.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#306Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#307Browsers are open source. I can download illegal content via a browser. Clearly they should DMCA all the browsers. Make as much (non) sense as this.
The accusation being made here isn’t “this software can be used for piracy”, but rather “this software is primarily designed for piracy”
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#308Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Except that Facebook has been integrating their sign on service into various acquisitions - using Zune (or any hardware) was quite hyperbolic of me. For a more even handed comparison: I'm not required to use a Live login to authorize with github.
Mojang acquired by Microsoft: 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojang_Studios )
Mojang users required to move to Microsoft (formerly Live) accounts: 2021 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21527647/minecraft-micro... )
I expect the same will happen for github eventually. Given the were acquired in 2018, by this timeline, I'm guessing by 2025.
Re: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
To play devil's advocate: how, when they won't let us?
Who doesn't? And how exactly do they do prevent you from exercising your democratic rights?
What do you mean by “show strong opposition but using civil and democratic means”? Give me that, and I'll show you millions who can't, or that it isn't effective, or rejoice and change the world.