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I was thinking the same until this part:

>> 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.




https://web.archive.org/web/20201105144800/https://codeload....

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


The smoking gun is right there in config.example.py:

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


A smoking gun is just circumstantial evidence.

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


How is that a smoking gun?

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.


It's a sarcastic joke, nothing there but a place holder for your own API key and you would have to set it up. There's no place like 127.0.0.1. :D


Okay this is just getting weird. One of those is just a database update that counts how many comments a torrent has. 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). The HTML template for the home page is also in there for some reason. 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.

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.


This is only true if you consider information that can be used to pirate works as "infringing material" that falls under the DMCA (in particular its safe harbour provision).

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


But isn't that exactly what's happening here?




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