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Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by slowmovintarget »

durnygbur wrote: post #73
matheusmoreira wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a country with internet hijacked by copyright predators Yeah, thank god my country is not among this group. We have better things to do than police imaginary american property. I remember reading a news article years ago about some MPAA lobbyist who came here to do his thing. A journalist asked him point blank if intellectual property should be a priority in a country that can barely manage to provide basic infrast…

This is an awful symptom of American cultural colonialism. They feed with one hand while slapping in the face with the other. Choke with your sitcoms and superheroes.

Nah, it's a symptom of America mostly producing TV shows and Movies as opposed to actual physical products that people need or love in their lives.

That particular business (Hollywood) happens to also be the propaganda arm for the current power, so naturally it's protected ham-fistedly by policy makers.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by mrandish »

oscargrouch wrote: post #82
matheusmoreira wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. And if you don't at least look like you're cooperating, the USA will put you in a literal naughty list of bad countries and develop "action plans" for dealing with it. https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report... You can't just isolate yourself from them either without massive economic consequences. Even if you suffered through those consequences, they'll probably just force you to trade anyw…

That's why Biden while being a relief to north-americans(and i completely agree) its worse for the rest of the world at least from the perspective of enforcing north-american policies and legislation worldwide (read big-co, intelligence agencies). Given Trump focus on the internal affairs of the US, while the political climate was toxic at home, at least it let all others breath a little. Now with Biden it will star…

I agree completely.

Strangely, the term "two party system" might lead one to assume there's a meaningful difference in real-world policy outcomes. Sadly, this is all too rare and, in practice, the differences are mostly in the claimed intentions and not the delivered results.

As an American, please accept my apology for all uninvited interference in the economic and political affairs of other nations.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by burk96 »

fabbari wrote: post #19

Interesting tidbit: the hash they have for the infringed work it's the correct hash for ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso [0] - this removes any good faith argument on their part. There is an infinitely small chance of collisions - but I would like them to produce a DMCA notice with the actual name of the infringed upon protected media, not just the hash. I believe Canonical should step in, since this is someone cla…

I haven't downloaded the torrent (and won't download it), but looking at the kat link, something weird is going on here. It says the torrent was uploaded and last updated 5 years ago in the video category of the site? Ubuntu 20.04 was released in, well, April of 2020. Unless I'm missing something that torrent can't possibly be Ubuntu 20.04, but it sure lines up that it could be Rebirth (2016) after all.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by officeplant »

lucian1900 wrote: post #95
oscargrouch wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why Biden while being a relief to north-americans(and i completely agree) its worse for the rest of the world at least from the perspective of enforcing north-american policies and legislation worldwide (read big-co, intelligence agencies). Given Trump focus on the internal affairs of the US, while the political climate was toxic at home, at least it let all others breath a little. Now with Biden it will star…

Not sure Biden should be a relief to US citizens either, he’s the author of the crime bill after all. The only significant difference between him and Trump is aesthetic.

Nah as an American its a massive relief to have someone more predictable in office. Even if he stands for a lot of what is wrong with the status quo and weak center politics. It has been kinda nice to wake up these last few months and not open my phone to check on how the clown in charge was continuing the circus acts on a world stage.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #24
trhway wrote: post #10

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interesting that Comcast immediately directs the user to delete the file and doesn't even list an option to counter the claim. The trolls are constantly looking and probing for a weak spot, and with high probability they have just found another one - large stupid ISPs like Comcast. Now they only need to scare Comcast into automating the disconnections YouTube style and/or collecting the small settlement fee under the…

From what I remember Comcast already has the "Sandvine" technology that automatically disconnects torrent clients. I have no idea if it is in use any longer.

That was easily sidestepped in a Linux router by telling iptables to ignore RST,RST packets on the Bittorrent port.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by gabereiser »

aurizon wrote: post #63
_trampeltier wrote: post #36

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I think about to write a mail to the company, because I would like to buy a product again and I also wonder about what they say about the story.

Yes, it would be interesting. This copyright trolling based on false rights has become a growth industry. Almost all you tube creators have stories to tell about fake trolling DMCA demands. Every new you tube creator is assured of being trolled and unless they are able to get them to back down, the trolls grab the monetization revenue portion youtube grants. I had this happen to me. I made an original cat video and p…

>This copyright trolling based on false rights has become a growth industry

Truer words have never been spoken right there. I feel like there’s an industry of folks that will perform DMCA takedowns on anyone’s behalf and they don’t care if they are correct or not. The onus is on the defendant. It’s sick.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by lucian1900 »

officeplant wrote: post #114
lucian1900 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure Biden should be a relief to US citizens either, he’s the author of the crime bill after all. The only significant difference between him and Trump is aesthetic.

Nah as an American its a massive relief to have someone more predictable in office. Even if he stands for a lot of what is wrong with the status quo and weak center politics. It has been kinda nice to wake up these last few months and not open my phone to check on how the clown in charge was continuing the circus acts on a world stage.

Aesthetically, sure. Materially, nothing has changed.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by rolph »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #26
boomboomsubban wrote: post #17

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The copyright holder doesn't need to provide that level of information to send a copyright claim, they just need to say that a violation has occured.

That is so messed up. A non state institution can non only claim you committed an offense, but it doesn't even have to justify itself.

yes messed up, how could we point this the other way?

if we held a copyright to kittehpix and took measures to monitor for infringement, could we not just claim that opsec has been flagrantly and repeatedly violating our copyright and have thier ISP disconnect opsec. It all seems to be set up "sos a good old boys word is all thats nessecary" fashion

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by kevincox »

burk96 wrote: post #113
fabbari wrote: post #19

Interesting tidbit: the hash they have for the infringed work it's the correct hash for ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso [0] - this removes any good faith argument on their part. There is an infinitely small chance of collisions - but I would like them to produce a DMCA notice with the actual name of the infringed upon protected media, not just the hash. I believe Canonical should step in, since this is someone cla…

I haven't downloaded the torrent (and won't download it), but looking at the kat link, something weird is going on here. It says the torrent was uploaded and last updated 5 years ago in the video category of the site? Ubuntu 20.04 was released in, well, April of 2020. Unless I'm missing something that torrent can't possibly be Ubuntu 20.04, but it sure lines up that it could be Rebirth (2016) after all.

I downloaded the torrent from KAT and confirmed that the filename and hash match the Ubuntu torrent. It appears that some metadata on that site is incorrect.

93bdab204067321ff131f560879db46bee3b994bf24836bb78538640f689e58f /mnt/downloads/ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by hedora »

kevincox wrote: post #119
burk96 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't downloaded the torrent (and won't download it), but looking at the kat link, something weird is going on here. It says the torrent was uploaded and last updated 5 years ago in the video category of the site? Ubuntu 20.04 was released in, well, April of 2020. Unless I'm missing something that torrent can't possibly be Ubuntu 20.04, but it sure lines up that it could be Rebirth (2016) after all.

I downloaded the torrent from KAT and confirmed that the filename and hash match the Ubuntu torrent. It appears that some metadata on that site is incorrect. 93bdab204067321ff131f560879db46bee3b994bf24836bb78538640f689e58f /mnt/downloads/ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso

Interesting.

If someone were to intentionally publish indexes that associate pirate titles with non-pirate SHAs, I imagine they’d be able to cause a lot of trouble for the DMCA takedown industry.

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