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Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by sp332 »

Causality1 wrote: post #50
sp332 wrote: post #2

4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just us…

I wish they'd been doing that when Google Video shut down. Lost a lot of good content I didn't download.

I helped download a few gigs of Google Video at the time, so I know some of it is up there.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by jodrellblank »

skipants wrote: post #62
kazinator wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is, you have to download the entire video to check the hash. That's not how video embedding works; the client browser is just handed some link, and it obtains pieces of the video, rendering it instantly. Basically, little segments of the video have to have a signature which is continuously validated. Or something like that.

I don't have expertise in video codecs or file formats, but couldn't you hash the first N bytes of a stream? Stream those N bytes to the client and if it matches start the video, else stop the download and not start the video.

Presumably for SHA256 you only need to hash ~256 bits; what's anyone gonna do, try all possible combinations to find a collision?

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by TekMol »

mdoms wrote: post #37
TekMol wrote: post #12

Domains are an area where blockchain technology could help a lot. A domain could cost a fixed amount of X per month. So you could pay 100 years upfront and be sure to not lose it in that timeframe. To move a domain,the registrar and the owner could have to sign the move. So it would not be possible anymore to lose a domain due to the regsitrar making a mistake.

Can you explain in detail what problem blockchain solves here and why it can't be solved without blockchain?

The problem that someone else can move your domain.

The same problem it solves for finance: That someone else can move your money.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by sp332 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #40
lallysingh wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

find | xargs awk?

Wikipedia has a bot that the Internet Archive collaborated on [1], where rotten links are updated to point to the Internet Archive and new links are queued for retrieval [2]. There should probably be a similar effort for CMS systems like Wordpress and such. The code to do this is semi trivial. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot

But the links here haven't rotted, in that they will not return a 404 or whatever. They will still load videos, it will just be replaced with porn. So you need more code to detect all vidme links as something to fall back to the Archive for.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by hayleox »

danso wrote: post #17
sp332 wrote: post #2

4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just us…

The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or "nearly all") of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.

It looks like each of those 12,385 items is a big 10.4GB archive of thousands of videos.

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Post by tech234a »

danso wrote: post #17
sp332 wrote: post #2

4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just us…

The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or "nearly all") of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.

That is the number of megawarc items. Each one of these items contains many videos.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by crummy »

TekMol wrote: post #74
mdoms wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain in detail what problem blockchain solves here and why it can't be solved without blockchain?

The problem that someone else can move your domain. The same problem it solves for finance: That someone else can move your money.

Don't normal domains work the same - you pay a fee and you get the domain for X years? In both situations the domains expire and a porn site can nab them.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by toomuchtodo »

sp332 wrote: post #75
toomuchtodo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia has a bot that the Internet Archive collaborated on [1], where rotten links are updated to point to the Internet Archive and new links are queued for retrieval [2]. There should probably be a similar effort for CMS systems like Wordpress and such. The code to do this is semi trivial. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot

But the links here haven't rotted, in that they will not return a 404 or whatever. They will still load videos, it will just be replaced with porn. So you need more code to detect all vidme links as something to fall back to the Archive for.

In a sense, all of the links for the domain in question have rotted, and must be replaced. To your point, your code could replace wholesale based on the domain.

Re: Old Vidme embeds turn into porn after domain purchase

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Post by sideproject »

I use Domainy

https://www.domainy.io

to monitor interesting domains being expired and to also find interesting domains that are available.

twitter.accountant? what about twitter.beauty?

Domains are not exactly available when they expire, but this helps me to check if any of them become available.

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