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RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

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Re: RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites

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Post by patagurbon »

Scoundreller wrote: post #115
maxfurman wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said it yourself - now you can pay $1 for 1 song and own it forever. Still a better deal than what we had back in the CD era.

I don’t think you own it, just a lifetime license (for you and X friends/« devices » sometimes). Depending on how extensions go, your children and grandchildren may have to re-pay to listen to your collection.

Amazon Music used to sell music DRM free, you could download it and do what you wanted with it. Not sure if that's still the case.

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Post by anaganisk »

jug wrote: post #61

I can't imagine there being all too much profit lost from people using youtube-dl to grab and avoid paying for copyrighted material... First, it's a command line tool. Second, even being well versed in those, I have only found the occasional such clips I wanted to ensure I had preserved. A documentary or two to view later etc. This simply cannot match e.g. the P2P scale...

Im not with RIAA or whatever but there are 10s of websites built on top youtube-dl (they promote it as such), that allow users to rip without knowledge on CLI.

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Post by brokenmachine »

breakingcups wrote: post #5
varispeed wrote: post #4

There is hope that one of the fresh billionaires takes an axe at the RIAA and other abusive organisations and brings hope to all artists that are being exploited by labels, lawyers and organisations like RIAA.

Oh yes please, benevolent billionaires, please fix our world!

Made me literally laugh out loud, thanks for that!

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Post by saurik »

fsflover wrote: post #164
Eli_P wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder why there are so few people Maybe because people understand that it's security model is flawed: the peers in the mesh treat all the other peers as not trusted, that's okay; but the network design doesn't seem to take into account potential hostility of the physical medium itself. Say, your ISP can tarpit packets or shape traffic, or shut down the power or cell tower in your block temporarily, and then meas…

AFAIK garlic routing is still harder to crack than Tor: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor . The main advantage of Tor is the number of users.

The network security people I know stopped bothering publishing attacks on I2P's directory service--which was(/is) in fact subject to eclipse attacks--because I2P didn't seem to care to fix the issues. Here's a great paper.

https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~chris/research/doc/raid13_i2p.pdf

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Post by torified »

stevens37 wrote: post #137

Once (~10-15y ago) I was thinking about a OTP based "2 component glue file sharing solution". You take a piece of data (audio,video), generate a real random one time pad then make an XOR delete the original and share the 2 random files using any media or network. Then share also the info that this and that files are the 2 component glue.

What problem does that solve?

You're doubling the transfer size. Why not just encrypt with a random passcode?

I still don't see the point though. For discoverability/longevity you need seeders. If every transfer has a different hash, then that can't happen.

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Post by jobigoud »

Buttons840 wrote: post #98

Has anyone ever experimented with reversing the analog loop with machine learning? Generating the training data would be easy. Play audio files through a speaker and record the speaker with a microphone. Then you have the original and the analog recording. Train the machine to reverse the process. Now you can grab high quality audio from any source. Same could be done for video, but would require a more elaborate set…

You can use a virtual audio cable to simply record anything that would go to your speakers, it's free.

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Post by fsflover »

Eli_P wrote: post #176
fsflover wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t forget that you have to do all this within 10 minutes, because after that time the network configuration will be totally different.

Yes, overlay network 's configuration will be somewhat different, but physically it will be the same. It's like you're rearranging apple bits in a pie to save them; the pie will be sliced and eaten anyways.

> the pie will be sliced and eaten anyways.

The difference is how long it takes and how much resources. There is no perfect security. Security is not a "yes/no" thing.

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Post by enriquto »

judge2020 wrote: post #94
enriquto wrote: post #80

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I don't understand the concept of "expiration" for an actual file that you have downloaded. How does it work, technically?

The download expires in the app. You don’t get a download button on YouTube.com with premium.

So the app deletes the file after expiration. But what if you copy the file elsewhere?

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Post by Aachen »

eythian wrote: post #69
Aachen wrote: post #55

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Blocking a topical news site because you don't like the topic... that's an interesting workplace. Perhaps they don't want you reading the news during work time, but it sounds like TF is blocked for you for false reasons.

The company doesn't explicitly block them, they use a product that does the blocking that includes torrentfreak in its "piracy" category.

But it isn't piracy, it's a news site.
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