World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

Post by Flammy » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

Flammy wrote: post #92

zaroth wrote: post #86

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"All trademarked and copyrighted liscences are property of their repsective owners." Obviously some magic YouTube incantation to protect against take-downs :-/ With 1m+ views, it's nice to see it's made it so long. Don't feel good about its prospects for much longer though!

The 'magic' is called Content-ID and it looks for video and audio matches with content uploaded to a private (and unviewable) system by copyright holders and it takes automated action if a match is detected. Theoretically any matches are reviewed by a human, but they make it quiet easy to automate the 'review' process. Automated actions are typically Claim-Remove (claim content for copyright holder, remove from YouTu…

Post by LurkerAtTheGate » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

rootbear wrote: post #81

grecy wrote: post #8

I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie. Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?

I know the person who made this and will probably see him at Chattacon this weekend. He told me how he did it but I forget now. I'll try to remember to ask him. I think he used something like VLC to split the movie into frames, then used another package to generate the ASCII art.

Post by zmitri » Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 8:51 PM UTC

ryan-c wrote: post #99

zmitri wrote: post #82

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I recently had a solo art show consisting entirely of ASCII Art works based on Taylor Swift, and it was quite successful. Probably 300 people came and I'm a veritable nobody. A bunch of young Swift fans came with their parents and it was a good introduction for some kids as to what you can do with programming Some images: https://www.facebook.com/dmitricherniak/media_set?set=a.5502... A video rendering I made: https:…

The Facebook link you provided is not publicly viewable - I get a "Sorry, this content isn't available right now" error.

Post by Houshalter » Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

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How did I not know that existed? I named mine "The Gungan Minus". We watched it together on Christmas Eve.

There's a bunch of Phantom Edits; the name's been reused several times. The one I watched was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LEhOZZbuk All three prequel movies edited down into a single 2-hour film. And you know what? It's actually... still not what you'd call good. But it's embarrassingly better than the originals. But there are others, like the Phantom Re-edit, which tries to improve on characters like Jar…

Post by sesqu » Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 11:18 AM UTC

chair-law wrote: post #106

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You can do better than that by taking advantage of character shapes, though. Minimal example: () and: )( have the same brightness values, but we see them pretty differently. Ideally you would use edge detection, maybe some object detection, and then be willing to compromise a little on brightness in order to make important edges nice. I don't know if there's software out there that does this, though.

How complex is an edge detection algorithm?