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Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by chatterhead »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #44
totetsu wrote: post #31

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200 years ago the Grimm brothers collected tales that had been memorized and shared for generations in the German oral tradition and made them into a book of fairy tales. 70 years Walt Disney made some animated movies based on these fairy tales. Today sharing a copy of Cinderella is Piracy.

> sharing a copy of Cinderella is Piracy with Disney artwork .

Disney being the artists whose labor and skill they labelled their own and claimed ownership of in perpetuity.

Sure, it's "Disney's" artwork.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by londons_explore »

justshowpost wrote: post #48
chhs wrote: post #42

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A v2 torrent allows clients to identify duplicate files across torrents via the "pieces root" entry in the metadata, so if they're downloading from torrent A and B, and each share file C, they can utilize peers from either swarm. But there's no way for other clients to know that there exists another torrent containing the file they are interested in if they only have the metadata for torrent A. In other words, there'…

This. Also, advertising every file in torrent (of unsuspecting user) to entire world would be a HUGE privacy flaw.

But you already advertise (via the DHT, which offers no secrecy) the torrent file... and that contains all the data needed to get all the files within the torrent.

So this data is already being published, just in a less queryable form.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by dangerface »

imhoguy wrote: post #36

As an active hoarder I think there is problem with "6. Distribution: Packaging it up in torrents, announcing it somewhere, getting people to spread it.". I miss a p2p application with torrent packaging and Kademlia like per-file advertising and discovery, where I could point it to my hefty NAS directory of random things and they could be wired to released torrents. This way we could make torrents live much longer, ev…

> I miss a p2p application with torrent packaging and Kademlia like per-file advertising and discovery, where I could point it to my hefty NAS directory of random things and they could be wired to released torrents.

That was the problem with p2p no one bothered to actually package their releases instead just slinging it onto the internet no care given as to if it was complete or even correctly labeled.

Sites like pirate bay had everything, torrents are a super fast and error resistant way to distribute content its the perfect system. The problem was that the content is illegal so it was nuked by companies with more money and power than any one can fight against.

The problem has never been technical or distribution the issue is the law.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by Brooksy3000 »

Freak_NL wrote: post #37
midoridensha wrote: post #7

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Or you can use a fake email address like from mailinator.

I've found Mailinator to be pretty much useless nowadays, despite having been the go to place for, what, a decade? It limited its free domain to only mailinator.com , which is mostly blocked anyway. There are plenty of alternatives out there though.

You should check out Mailinator's new free tier... You'll get a private domain, access to the API, and avoid the filters that come with the public mailinator.com domain.

Here's a link: https://bit.ly/3cs4v5E

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by latchkey »

est wrote: post #13
ynno wrote: post #3

I think Alexandra Elbakyan actually did not want to be revealed as the librarian behind Sci-Hub, it was her poor opsec that led to her being identified. Basically her servers were set up to emit detailed error messages from PHP, including full path of faulting source file, which was under directory /home/ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username she had online on an unrelated site, attached to her real name. Be…

> which was under directory /home/ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username Ha, my home dir is always called "me" or "and". Try google that.

Smart. Here's how to rename on OSX (might break a lot of tooling, but whatever).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by justsomehnguy »

chatterhead wrote: post #91
justsomehnguy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> sharing a copy of Cinderella is Piracy with Disney artwork .

Disney being the artists whose labor and skill they labelled their own and claimed ownership of in perpetuity. Sure, it's "Disney's" artwork.

I have a problem with Disney's

> claimed ownership of in perpetuity

but I don't have a problem with labour and skill - D. paid for that labour and skill. Awfully low and abusive, but just like every other corporate, especially in USA.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by chatterhead »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #97
chatterhead wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney being the artists whose labor and skill they labelled their own and claimed ownership of in perpetuity. Sure, it's "Disney's" artwork.

I have a problem with Disney's > claimed ownership of in perpetuity but I don't have a problem with labour and skill - D. paid for that labour and skill. Awfully low and abusive, but just like every other corporate, especially in USA.

If Disney gets to renegotiate it's licensing rights with the government; the original authors of work claimed by Disney should be allowed to, too. But, that concept exhibits a "should" attribute of fairness so obviously it's illogical and ridiculous.

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by steve_john »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #5
yamrzou wrote: post #2

«That secrecy, however, comes with a psychological cost. Most people love being recognized for the work that they do, and yet you cannot take any credit for this in real life.» Feels like the anonymous torrent seeder who keeps seeding a file for years just for the sake of keeping it alive. It's not easy, but some people seem to be able to derive full pleasure from accomplishing the task itself, whether recognition ha…

I think you can still get a reddit account without giving them even an email address, and definitely not a phone number.

Yes you are right reddit account can get without phone number

Re: How to become a pirate archivist

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Post by tenacious_tuna »

This article has me curious as to most people's "op-sec" around personal piracy practices, e.g. torrenting. Do people take requests from family members? How restrictive are you with these behaviors, especially when backed by something like Plex (which presumably just directly erodes any other opsec you may be practicing).
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