>> 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.

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

    TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret'
    TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'

The real damning thing in that repository are the few lines that play Toy Story 2 if you run them.

It connects with a tracker, which might be used to help distribute copyrighted works illegally, but also any other types of files.

It's possible I'm not getting your sarcasm.

Really the most suspicious ones are the python scripts in utils, which connect to the api on https://nyaa.si by default. 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?).

Also 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.

Which would effectively give any copyright holder carte blanche to censor any information that can be used to infringe their copyright.

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.

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.

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.

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

You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

We've already made that hop.

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.

Any MPAA representative, or the legal equivalent in my country are invited to get fucked, since they would need access to said hard drives to prove it.

But yes, and probably.

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.

>Or is Nginx also infringing because when downloaded

No, you have to use Google Chrome for this.