![]() ![]() They have legitimate competition here.ĭeveloper's opinions of GitHub and Microsoft in general may be of more longer term importance to them than the MPAA's opinion of them. If exposure to flimsy takedowns is a part of GitHub, then people will be more motivated to send their money to GitLab, Atlassian's stuff, or a bunch of other options. Microsoft, very transparently, wants to make money by being important in how people develop software. Having repositories exposed to flimsy DMCA takedowns is not part of that. The upside of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub (and the entire strategy that resulted in the acquisition) is that Microsoft has created incentives for themselves to have GitHub being regarded as a truly open platform that you can depend on. ![]() > Microsoft would never do that unless their hands were forced. I think pushing back on this take down notice would be a slam dunk case. The MPA lawyers are either incompetent or working under the assumption that their clients are invincible / above the law. I'm not a lawyer, but misuse of copyright / trademark should be covered in any decent introduction to intellectual property law course. Entertainment Inc., Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Netflix Studios, LLC, and their respective affiliates (collectively, the “MPA Member Studios”), which own or control exclusive rights under copyright in and to a vast number of motion pictures and television shows." ![]() " each of the major motion picture studios in the United States, specifically, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Universal City Studios LLC, Warner Bros. The letter clearly sets the scope of the copyrights that would be at stake in this case: The normal punishment for misuse of copyright is the rendering of the copyright unenforceable. Misuse of copyright is when a copyright holder attempts to illegitimately expand the rights granted to them by their copyright in some work (in this case, quashing competition from distribution channels that are used to distribute unrelated copyrighted material). Sooner or later, one of these projects will counter-sue for misuse of copyright. Although those also only seem to allow you to upload torrents (not an infrinfing activity) and download the info of a single entry on nyaa (possibly infringing?).Īlso they curiously left out sync_es.py, not that that one does anything too interesting (it synchronizes a elasticsearch database with a MySql database) but it is the script that actually uses those configuration files they picked out. ![]() Really the most suspicious ones are the python scripts in utils, which connect to the api on by default. And then to finish things off they added the OpenSearch definition which I think you can use to add Nyaa/Sukebei as a search engine to your browser. The HTML template for the home page is also in there for some reason. Another is just some database credentials (probably not the ones you want to use in production, unless you don't mind people knowing your passwords). One of those is just a database update that counts how many comments a torrent has. ![]()
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