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

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Post by proverbialbunny »

CarVac wrote: post #266
proverbialbunny wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

I see. I never downloaded these speedsubs nor knew they existed, because I had a choice. I could download high quality content, which I did. Back then I was never forced into crappy subs.

Today options are limited for many different anime, where you get one or more choices and all of them are just okay, not keeping up with the standard a decade+ ago.

At least professional subs today are better than fansubs in the 80s and early to mid 90s.

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

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

kleiba wrote: post #313
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here are a few: - engage in discussions - speak up against injustices - vote - join groups of like-minded people - exercise your right to demonstrate Change is hard, and it is slow. That is usually not a bad thing; however, it requires persistence. I'm currently stuck in Germany. Think about the late 80s when a whole state was brought down peacefully by the people of the German Democratic Republic. It was not a storm…

The first and fourth require like-minded people around you. The second requires some measure of personal political power. The last one requires both. The third requires you not to have been disenfranchised.

There are many people in the US who can't do any of those. I'm not sure how that compares to East Germany, since I have lived in neither country.

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

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Post by kleiba »

kleiba wrote: post #313
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here are a few: - engage in discussions - speak up against injustices - vote - join groups of like-minded people - exercise your right to demonstrate Change is hard, and it is slow. That is usually not a bad thing; however, it requires persistence. I'm currently stuck in Germany. Think about the late 80s when a whole state was brought down peacefully by the people of the German Democratic Republic. It was not a storm…

I understand that you want to prove a point and stick to your position, but in all honesty, I don't find your claim convincing.

People in the US cannot engage in discussions? You need to have political power to speak up against injustices? 98.5% of the US population has not been disenfranchised in 2020. Obviously, joining groups of like-minded people requires such groups to exist, but in the age of social media, they don't have to be physically around you any more.

I mean, without a doubt every single one of your points is true and applicable in some cases, but for the vast majority of people there is absolutely no problem doing any of the examples I listed.

Let's not forget our context here: the OP suggested deadly violence against "rentseekers", and I countered that more civil acts should be taken. I sure hope that despite your arguments above, you'd still be on my side in that question.

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

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Post by naniwaduni »

proverbialbunny wrote: post #321
CarVac wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I see. I never downloaded these speedsubs nor knew they existed, because I had a choice. I could download high quality content, which I did. Back then I was never forced into crappy subs. Today options are limited for many different anime, where you get one or more choices and all of them are just okay, not keeping up with the standard a decade+ ago. At least professional subs today are better than fansubs in the 80s…

Well, back then you mostly just wouldn't have heard much at all about most of the kinds of shows which just get an official sub and no fansubber attention.

Venture into the realm of even slightly obscure and you generally have ... zero to one choices of script translation, usually. To this day, even.

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

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

Taniwha wrote: post #172
dan-robertson wrote: post #102

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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

Notice-and-takedown provisions are not just for things that actually infringe copyright, and the "DMCA notice" part may be an extremely easy misclassification of the letter sent to GitHub. More specifically, notice-and-takedown is for user-submitted content that is illegal or tortious to knowingly distribute. Copyrighted content is the main offender here, but there are other categories, especially "anti-circumvention" tools illegal under other provisions of the DMCA.

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

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Post by webinvest »

xirbeosbwo1234 wrote: post #182
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.

As an avid hater of Bitcoin and lover of copyright infringement, I am all for that! It would be great if we could get the MPA and RIAA to kill Bitcoin for us. People would still gamble away their life's savings on other scams, like Amway, slot machines, or Tesla stock, but at least they wouldn't waste gigawatts of electrical power doing it.

1) Bitcoin can be powered by renewable sources of electricity such as solar and it is very cost effective to do so.

2) Bitcoin uses about as much power as New Zealand.

3) The amount of bitcoin mining is 6.25 bitcoins every 10 minutes which halves every few years. The more mining, the less the miners make. If bitcoin had 1/100th as many miners, it would use 1/100th as much energy but still function and work the same. However, it would be 100x more profitable to be a miner and less secure.

4)As the mining rewards halve, we can expect the people willing to mine to halve and the electrical usage to halve.

5) Ethereum is moving away from proof of work to proof of stake in it’s transition to Ethereum 2.0. This will make eth use orders of magnitude less power to the point where as long as you hold 32 Ethereum you could be processing Ethereum transactions from just your mobile phone.

6) Many altcoins are more energy efficient or use their hash power for something useful. Remember Primecoin?

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

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Post by munk-a »

Macha wrote: post #309
munk-a wrote: post #278

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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.

I'm a bit doubtful of this. It's possible but Microsoft uses Live for both business and gaming, but they've only had a track record of forcing Live account adoption onto users in the gaming sphere. It may happen, sure, but I don't think it's likely.

That all said I didn't think it was likely that Minecraft would switch over to using Live accounts since Minecraft is so famously cross platform and Live accounts have struggled with that in the past.

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

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Post by Macha »

munk-a wrote: post #327
Macha wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm a bit doubtful of this. It's possible but Microsoft uses Live for both business and gaming, but they've only had a track record of forcing Live account adoption onto users in the gaming sphere. It may happen, sure, but I don't think it's likely. That all said I didn't think it was likely that Minecraft would switch over to using Live accounts since Minecraft is so famously cross platform and Live accounts have st…

They're also boiling the frog on Windows local accounts at the moment. It's no longer possible to set up a new install of Home, or Windows 10 (any SKU) in S mode with a local account without either disconnecting internet during installation or going back and converting to a local account after
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