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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by Shared404 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:01PM (#25838834)
> You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

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.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by zadokshi on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:18PM (#25839002)
Does admitting such things demonstrate a lack of wisdom? Does copyright infringement monitoring extend to comments on public forums?
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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by ohgodplsno on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:24AM (#25843512)
Not really. Here, I can publicly say that I've got 12 terabytes of hard drives, about 8 of which are absolutely full of copyrighted content. Games, movies, music, PDFs, software. I even seed quite a bit of it.

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.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by Shared404 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:29PM (#25839136)
Maybe I'm only kidding. Who knows?

But yes, and probably.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by kaszanka on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:02PM (#25839508)
It's not as if it will actually have any consequences.
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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by 6510 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:25AM (#25843514)
Not now but in the future it certainly will come back to you.
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