Please don't, however, baselessly propagate their claims. As far as I can tell it's bullshit. The source code may be for nyaa.si but it just contains normal torrent tracker code.
Why did they pick the search entry XML for the porn section??? (I can only assume their lawyers have no idea what 'sukebei' means.) Anyway, nothing interesting in this file either.
They DCMA doesn't say that the repo was used to host copyrighted material:
>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.
They are basically saying "this is the codebase for nyaa.si, and as proof here are a bunch of files that prove that assertion". What I don't understand is the legal grounds they have to compel GitHub to remove the repository. It would be like if I removed ffmpeg from github because freestreams.tv was using it to power their backend.
I understand that, but those files do not show that the repo is preconfigured to host copyrighted files. I don't get what the search XML or database migration is supposed to prove for example.
All they have demonstrated is that it is the source code for nyaa.si. I don't get how that is enough to do anything.
I'd say that first one (api_info) is semi-plausible in terms of being "configured" for piracy, in that it hard codes the production API of the site, and I assume the data accessible therein is largely piracy.
It is also true that one would need to modify quite a few places to make this codebase sensibly usable for anything non-piracy. Even if an Anime studio decided to make their back catalog available over torrent (for some reason), this site really is not designed for their needs.
However, I strongly suspect this list of files is roughly the set that have 'nyaa' as a stand alone word (i.e. not part of a snake case word or other compound). I suspect they loaded the code into a search engine, and searched for "nyaa.si", and flagged all results. Many search engines will treat the '.' like a space, will filter out "si" as being too short, and thus search for "nyaa", and only find results for that when it exists as a separate word.
See, I still think that's innocuous since it does not list any particular infringing links. For example, Google has no issues showing us opentrackr.org.
And yet, it is completely absent from the DMCA takedown, which signals to me that they really did no work at all before making this takedown.
a link to a list of trackers it no more illegal than publishing the public street address of a business that sells products that are illegal in certain jurisdictions (texas dildo law, anyone?)
Take a look at the files listed:
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/utils/api_info....
Online here: https://gitlab.com/SIGBUS/nyaa/-/blob/master/utils/api_info....
See anything remotely suggestive? Not I.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/utils/api_uploa...
Nothing interesting here either.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/static/sea...
Why did they pick the search entry XML for the porn section??? (I can only assume their lawyers have no idea what 'sukebei' means.) Anyway, nothing interesting in this file either.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/api_handle...
Again, looks ENTIRELY generic.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/.docker/nyaa-co...
It's a config file with some credentials in it. Again, nothing.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/torrents.p...
More generic looking Flask code.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/templates/...
Again... it's a very basic looking HTML template.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/migrations/vers...
Just about the least interesting database migration ever.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/config.example....
I'm not even sure why they would pick this file, seriously. At this point they're just making shit up.
> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/.docker/es_sync...
And another random config file.
If there's even a smidgen of actual copyright infringement in this repo, they failed to find it.