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Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Post by Rjevski »

They really should’ve used some end to end encryption to protect themselves against DMCA bullshit.

As it stands they will be abused for copyright infringement and the rights holders will not only ask for the files to be taken down, but for them to preemptively prevent those same files from being uploaded again. A huge rabbit hole full of bullshit.

Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Post by nilsocket »

Rjevski wrote: post #2

They really should’ve used some end to end encryption to protect themselves against DMCA bullshit. As it stands they will be abused for copyright infringement and the rights holders will not only ask for the files to be taken down, but for them to preemptively prevent those same files from being uploaded again. A huge rabbit hole full of bullshit.

Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.

Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Post by jgrahamc »

nilsocket wrote: post #3
Rjevski wrote: post #2

They really should’ve used some end to end encryption to protect themselves against DMCA bullshit. As it stands they will be abused for copyright infringement and the rights holders will not only ask for the files to be taken down, but for them to preemptively prevent those same files from being uploaded again. A huge rabbit hole full of bullshit.

Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.

I would be much more concerned about people using this site for the transfer of illegal material (such as child abuse imagery). That's something literally any file sharing/image hosting site has to deal with. The 14 day limit won't make a difference as people disseminating that type of material are likely used to having to move it around frequently.

Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Post by gorbypark »

jgrahamc wrote: post #4
nilsocket wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.

I would be much more concerned about people using this site for the transfer of illegal material (such as child abuse imagery). That's something literally any file sharing/image hosting site has to deal with. The 14 day limit won't make a difference as people disseminating that type of material are likely used to having to move it around frequently.

I built a proof of concept project that was a lot like transfer.sh at one point in time. My solution was to not only have a time limit but a download limit as well. I'd guess most people transferring files from the command line want to transfer something from one machine to another, or maybe to a few other machines. I was going to allow a transfer limit of 10 transfers before the file/link went dead, which would hopefully deter most nefarious people using it to widely spread files around..

Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Post by unhammer »

On a related note, I recently learnt that if you're on the same local network, there's a much faster way to transfer than the old tar|nc trick[0]: udpcast. You do

    $ udp-sender --min-receivers 1 --full-duplex --pipe 'tar czvf - theDirectory'
on the sender and

    $ udp-receiver --pipe 'tar xzp'
and at least on my home network it's 11x faster than tar|nc. There are some caveats[1] about udp not working well everywhere, and you may have to open ports 9000 and 9001 and of course it's not encrypted at all, but for copying large ISO's and such when you can't find your usb stick it's great. Just remember to compare checksums afterwards.

[0] http://www.spikelab.org/blog/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-t...

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/692294/why-is-udcast-is-many...

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