GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by ihuman on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:31PM (#25837718)

> 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.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by flyingfences on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:32PM (#25837739)

Torrent files in general, yes. Torrent files are not, by default, any sort of legal infringement.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by ihuman on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:34PM (#25837757)

I agree. I was pointing that file out because it supports what you were saying.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:56PM (#25842419)

I 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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