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A comment on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si. Parent comment

Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by dahfizz on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:51PM (#25837087)
The issue is that (supposedly, we can't know because the repo has been taken down) the code was pre-configured to host copyrighted material. From the complaint:

> 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.

I don't know if they mean that the code is preconfigured to connect to a torrent network which is known to host copyrighted material, or if there was a host_copyrighted_contet.cfg file, etc. Its hard to know how much they are stretching the truth because the code is gone.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by sodality2 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:56PM (#25837165)
Agreed, that's what I just commented before reading this reply. They are very loose with their words in takedowns. I bet it's probably not as bad as they say, though. Maybe it has a movie/TV API that it uses, thus is "preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content".
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