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Over 900 Rarbg Magnet Link Repos Anonymously Nuked from GitHub
- ttrn 3y agoThe headline is misleading: it's 900 forks of the same GitHub repository and AFAICS a DMCA of one repository also takes down its forks. To make it more difficult to take down, they could clone and push a new repository back to GitHub without the fork relationship.
- KomoD 3y ago> AFAICS a DMCA of one repository also takes down its forks Only if specified, and no, it's not misleading, they are still individual repositories.
- tap-snap-or-nap 3y agoCould be found here https://github.com/TrueAnon99/RARBG https://github.com/TrueAnon99/RARBG
- WeylandYutani 3y agoHeil Hydra.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- BasedAnon 3y ago,__'. |___| Come And Take It
- taylorfinley 3y agoStreisand effect in action! I never would have cloned this, otherwise.
- bsagdiyev 3y agoAnother copy to clone locally. Thanks. I've got a few other repos, some with tools to sort through the data.
- botanical 3y agoWhy is this legally allowed? Do they not have to prove that a hash belongs to copyrighted material? Also how is a hash of something equal to being the thing? Do copyrighted laws have specific sub-laws when it comes to digital media?
- ugjka 3y agoDMCA take down notices can be abused and there is no upshot for github to fight this in court, especially if the material are torrent links not any kind of software project
- newaccount74 3y agoGithub has no reason to keep hosting the repos. It's obvious that their only purpose is to facilitate piracy. Github is in the code hosting business, not the movie pirating business.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoWhat’s stopping me from doing the same but rot13’ing the magnet link?
- shuntress 3y agoProbably a combination of motive and ability.
- niea_11 3y agoThe files in the repo are a list of magnet URIs which contain in this case the hash plus the title of the content. Something like this : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BSXYFTH5VCJLB32DYS2FPTJUB2IVNKUS&dn=Fedora-Astronomy_KDE-Live-x86_64-37
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- sacnoradhq 3y agoI can't understand why anyone would use GitHub for anything DMCA-able when there's archive.org, mega, ipfs, i2p, and the new z-lib home. Perhaps some people believe it's equivalent to Gitee when it's not or are too lazy to put it somewhere that won't immediately dmcarot or linkrot.
- RobotToaster 3y agoI've used gitee for OSS before, but never knew they could be used for DMCA-able content.
- tomxor 3y ago> Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." [0] erm, sounds like that would just swap one government's ideology of unsharable information with another government's. It's just not called DMCA. Those two do overlap, even in the most popular of cases like US movies, but for different reasons. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitee
- MallocVoidstar 3y agoDoesn't Gitee require manual review of all repos now?
- omgmajk 3y agoRarbg was on ipfs but it is now gone again, not sure if it's up somewhere else. This was the link that was posted to HN a while ago: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW...
- dennis-tra 3y agoIt’s gone from the ipfs.io gateway but the CID is still available in the network. Take your own IPFS node (e.g. companion or Brave’s built-in) and you should be able to resolve it
- 2h 3y agonote that GitHub also instantly suspends accounts based on file content: https://github.com/4cq2/blog/tree/main/2023-03/github-suspend https://github.com/4cq2/blog/tree/main/2023-03/github-suspen...
- duskwuff 3y agoAre you surprised that they've deployed countermeasures against patterns of abuse?
- 2h 3y agohow is an HLS playlist abuse?
- duskwuff 3y agoIt's abuse when it's being used to coordinate pirate video streams -- which, when a new user creates a HLS playlist as their very first action, is the most likely possibility.
- 2h 3y agoI agree, their actions are totally justified. lets just instantly ban these accounts without even a warning email. great idea.
- hkt 3y agoSelf hosted alternatives: Gogs Gitea GitBucket Sourcehut In fact, just google it. Torrents-csv uses gitea: https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server
- gardnr 3y agoI love how they built a whole project around sharing a single csv file. It's got a docker compose setup.
- madars 3y agotorrents-csv does not have rarbg database. https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-data/issues/1 https://git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-data/issues...
- hkt 3y agoSeems eminently doable though. I for one look forward to seeing it loaded in!
- teddyh 3y agoAlways remember to s/GitHub/Microsoft/
- phantompeace 3y agoAlso available at https://rarxd.lol https://rarxd.lol (no new links added yet, just around 2.5 million links from the previous dumps). Looking into checking the health of each and every link. Anybody got any tips?
- spicybright 3y agoSo why is this better than a torrent site that shows what's actually being seeded or not? I have a feeling 99% of these would be dead.
- dmvdoug 3y agoThe post is puzzled and thinks there’s a great mystery about what the infringed content was, but the DMCA Notice is crystal clear: > The original copyrighted content is/was posted online at: [private] [private] (*) There are various 18+ porn videos from these or other sites that I own that are directly linked in these files. These files are behind a paid membership area, so aren't fully available publicly. So, what’s the puzzlement? That they redacted the actual titles?
- 6510 3y agoThe interesting part is the focus on the finger pointing at the magnet (which points at the torrent) Basically, citizens are not allowed to point at things. The web is full of "$name (1970)" and there are also lots of torrents with those keywords. some will have "1080p" some "BluRay" some "X264" etc etc In stead of sharing the magnet you can share "$name.1970.1080p.x264" and the recipient can pretty much find what you are talking about like "Steal This Film II.720p.mov" Wait a bit for persecution to "mature" then evolve the format to use keywords like "wonderful","amazing","great","funny","western","horror",etc possibly in specific order to save ink while ignoring "it's","and","thats",etc The adventure is more interesting than the recordings.
- musicale 3y agoSo metadata such as magnet links are considered contributory infringement? I wonder how that was established.
- Rant423 3y agoFYI, https://rarbg.best/ https://rarbg.best/ has the full rarbg database (up until May 31)