3 ms·

Why?

• TheDong 6y ago
  1. copyright infringement Downloading this torrent is willful copyright infringement of nissan's copyrighted code. 2. CFAA If you live in the US, the CFAA is a very poorly worded law that can be abused by a company with over-eager lawyers. Effectively, the law states that it's a crime to "exceed authorized access" of computer systems. It's borderline, but it's possible nissan could take anyone who downloads this data to court claiming that they were not authorized to access the data on the git server, and knowingly downloading that data constitutes a CFAA violation. I don't think it would stand up in court (other than the original hacker who guessed 'admin/admin', which was def a CFAA violation), but I also don't think most of us have enough money to spend on lawyers to defend ourselves.
  • jmt_ 6y ago
    Yep, and remember due to the peer-to-peer nature of torrents it's trivial for someone to monitor the IP addresses of the seeds and leeches. This is how people have gotten mean leaders from RIAA for torrenting music for example.
  • interestica 6y ago
    If you want to learn more about IP legal disputes, visit http://nissan.com http://nissan.com Really.
    • Raphmedia 6y ago
      For those who don't want to click this link, this is Nissan Computer's website which are unrelated to the car company.
      • olyjohn 6y ago
        Wonder what's going on with this now. I heard that Uzi Nissan (The original site owner) has passed away. https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fought-nissan-in-1844535615 https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...