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How long would it take the cryptocurrency miners to use all their hashing power to find the deterministic key that generates the content of libgen? That might be an easier solution than trying to achieve minimally sane copyright reform.
It doesn't work like that. Hashes aren't compressed versions of the hashed content.
Why do the French have such a hard-on for copyright enforcement? (Honest question)
Does this mean other countries in the EU and at international level could follow suit?
Would be interesting to measure the negative impact on a French science. Not sure how much though.
And with this news, millions of French now become aware of these tempting sites they wouldn't otherwise even know about. (And Google methods of alternative access.) #streisandeffect
Why do the French have such a hard-on for copyright enforcement? (Honest question)
The French really love their language, traditional publishers continue to publish in French whereas new-tech is more often in English or other languages. So I'd argue that the French have a love-affair with traditional publishing, and traditional publishing loves draconian copyright rules. The whole thing is almost a culture war for the French people's soul by-proxy.
In this case I have no pity for them, then. If they want to feel better about themselves by cutting off their own ears because other people are using English then let them.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't work like that. Hashes aren't compressed versions of the hashed content.
I think theyre suggesting hashing all of libgen and distributing and working backwards from that hash, as a joke
And with this news, millions of French now become aware of these tempting sites they wouldn't otherwise even know about. (And Google methods of alternative access.) #streisandeffect
With a lot of proxies (in the linked document (french) [0]) I didn't know about; perfect! [0]: https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf