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>> "It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents."

I don't think it matters if they're serving torrents or not. The movie industry will likely sue them anyway and GitHub probably doesn't want to be involved in any way.

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If they removed the tracker file then nothing can be wrong. It's not illegal to stream torrents. Just to stream copyrighted torrents.

I will move away from github if this is true! First the sexism and now this!

The point was that the MPAA can make life very expensive for GitHub if even if they don't have legal footing.

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