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>Specifically, at the URL, the Repository hosts and offers for download the Project, which, when downloaded, provides the downloader everything necessary to lau
by Hamuko 6y ago
>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 massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows using this piece of software.
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.
Or is Nginx also infringing because when downloaded, it allows me to start engaging in massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows by enabling directory indexing and uploading MP4s?
- ihuman 6y ago> 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.
- flyingfences 6y agoTorrent files in general, yes. Torrent files are not, by default, any sort of legal infringement.
- ihuman 6y agoI agree. I was pointing that file out because it supports what you were saying.
- colejohnson66 6y agoI wouldn’t go that far. The DMCA mentions “linking”. And while it’s a big stretch to say that a torrent or magnet link is a “link”, they do tell you “how” to find something. If that something is copyrighted, I could see an MPAA lawyer arguing that a torrent “links” to the infringing content. Although, OTOH, if I told a friend to “go to thepiratebay.org and search for $movieName”, it would be harder to prove I’m infringing. It’s a very gray area.
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- phkahler 6y agoI was thinking the same until this part: >> The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law. It's one thing to host software that can be used for this. It's another to host software specifically configured for it. Still might be legal. I wanted to see what the linked configuration files actually contain, but they've been taken down. It still smacks of going after the tools rather than the infringers.
- contravariant 6y agoThis is only true if you consider information that can be used to pirate works as "infringing material" that falls under the DMCA (in particular its safe harbour provision). Which would effectively give any copyright holder carte blanche to censor any information that can be used to infringe their copyright.
- colonwqbang 6y agoBut isn't that exactly what's happening here?
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- Hamuko 6y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20201105144800/https://codeload.github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/zip/master https://web.archive.org/web/20201105144800/https://codeload.... Have at 'em. .docker/es_sync_config.json .docker/nyaa-config-partial.py config.example.py migrations/versions/2bceb2cb4d7c_add_comment_count_to_torrent.py nyaa/api_handler.py nyaa/static/search-sukebei.xml nyaa/templates/home.html nyaa/torrents.py utils/api_info.py utils/api_uploader_v2.py
- femto113 6y agoThe smoking gun is right there in config.example.py: TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret' TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'
- akerro 6y ago> I have and upload them to the site, which is really outside of this project. >Or is Nginx also infringing because when downloaded No, you have to use Google Chrome for this.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoThis. Google is the largest pirate corporation in the world.
- whateveracct 6y ago> 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
- BlueGh0st 6y agoThe idea of constructive possession of copyright infringing material is a little hilarious and sad.
- Aerroon 6y agoCopyright 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.
- Shared404 6y ago> 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.
- chme 6y agoWell 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 difficult, the rules seem to have changed here a bit, so now the defendant would have to prove that they didn't intent to do so... Which might be even more difficult, but who with money and influence cares about that.
- xtracto 6y agoExactly... 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.
- colejohnson66 6y agoSpeaking of DeCSS: it’s available in haiku form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS_haiku
- philipov 6y agoI had one of those shirts.
- kobalsky 6y agoWe 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.
- chme 6y agoOf course they could.
- LatteLazy 6y agoYou're right. But unless you have $100m for legal fees, being right is irrelevant.
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- mirekrusin 6y agoApple store must be offender as well as you can buy computer and that provides everything necessary to do X.
- LdSGSgvupDV 6y agoWe should ban all ISP also. They pass the files to users.
- rhyne 6y agoYes, but without them how will the consumers be able to access the nonpirated versions. In all seriousness though, if the ISPs banded together, they could hold the (first)world hostage. Trying to hold the ISP accountable for what it's users are doing is an extremely dangerous precedent. Right now (or at least last year) there were huge debates going on about just how much culpability social media platforms should take in regards to content posted on them, and it was chaos, everybody had different opinions and policies. Now imagine what that chaos would do if, instead of content rules being different from facebook to twitter, the rules differed from Verizon to Comcast