Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
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Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#2Sigh
Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#3This is an old story.
The update is the Spanish gov fining the league 1/240th of their top player’s salary (250k/61m) for abusing 10m of their residents’ personal technology and privacy.
Another way of putting it is 1/100th of the team salary for the lowest spending team (250k/24m). Which, in-turn, spends 1/33rd as much as the top spender.
Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#4This will lead to an arms race with deploying cellular, GPS and wifi jammers. You can order them online right now for low prices, at low power they are very unlikely to ever be investigated.
https://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers/
Do note things like this are HIGHLY illegal, and carry pretty insane fines if you are caught.
Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#5It's insane that they can get away with this with so little consequence.
Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#6This will lead to an arms race with deploying cellular, GPS and wifi jammers. You can order them online right now for low prices, at low power they are very unlikely to ever be investigated. https://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers/ Do note things like this are HIGHLY illegal, and carry pretty insane fines if you are caught.
No bar is going to install a cell, gps or wifi jammer to avoid a small fine... as doing so would put them out of business.
No customer is going to hang out in a bar where their cell phone doesn't work.
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#7football
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#8It's insane that they can get away with this with so little consequence.
edit: I misunderstood OP's comment; makes much more sense when I read it in the light suggested by anchpop below.
...that they can get away with copying a bytestream and decoding the result onto a screen? Which harms nobody?
The insane part is that people, even on HN, have become convinced that someone can own knowledge to such exclusivity that copying bytes can be a crime.
Re: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games
#9It's insane that they can get away with this with so little consequence.
edit: I misunderstood OP's comment; makes much more sense when I read it in the light suggested by anchpop below. ...that they can get away with copying a bytestream and decoding the result onto a screen? Which harms nobody? The insane part is that people, even on HN, have become convinced that someone can own knowledge to such exclusivity that copying bytes can be a crime.
The commenter was probably referring to the actions taken by LaLiga, not the bars illegally streaming.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
edit: I misunderstood OP's comment; makes much more sense when I read it in the light suggested by anchpop below. ...that they can get away with copying a bytestream and decoding the result onto a screen? Which harms nobody? The insane part is that people, even on HN, have become convinced that someone can own knowledge to such exclusivity that copying bytes can be a crime.
The commenter was probably referring to the actions taken by LaLiga, not the bars illegally streaming.
Riiiight. OK, that makes more sense.
My bad.
OK, so more on topic then: what's coming down the pipeline for hardware protection against this crap? Why don't we yet have small LEDs wired in series with microphone and camera on phones?
It's crazy that my phone can record without my even realizing it.