Comments on: BPI Rejects Use of Spotify-Owned “Stay Down” Pirate Tool

By: Rightsholders Prefer 'Ineffective' Google Takedowns Over Proven Anti-Piracy Tool | News - Digital Digest

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:19:45 +0000

[…] to present the piracy problem in a more PR friendly light.BitTorrent news website TorrentFreak investigated the large number of Google copyright take-down requests of 4shared links filed by […]

By: Herp Derpson

Herp Derpson — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:26:00 +0000

It’s absolutely about pointless “metrics.” When your boss wants to know what *you’re* doing to bring down those gosh-darn “pirates,” it looks better to have an increasingly-large list of takedowns. Because, you know, more=better. Some “fancy internet tool owned by those Spotify pirates” isn’t going to fly with an out-of-touch exec, but a PowerPoint that lists 6.75M takedowns sure will.

I’d bet it’s not so much PR as it is somebody trying to keep their job via stupid metrics that look good to their bosses.

By: Fields

Fields — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:50:00 +0000

There is a rule of thumb in writing good articles: never assume everybody understands acronyms; always expand them.

By: Click Vote

Click Vote — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:07:00 +0000

Your first point on control by big business and politicians is correct but your last sentence is wrong. The word “anathema” (someone or something intensely disliked or loathed) cannot be applied. You cleverly added Socialists and Muslims when you had been talking about government and business. I presume you wish to draw people’s attention to these two groups because you dislike something about them. Did you witness the recent protests in Turkey when the government tried to block certain sites – Muslims in Turkey went out on the street and demanded that the internet remain open and free from censorship. As for Socialists not wanting a free and open internet you have to be kidding. I presume you are referring to the Stalin era. Most people today with liberal views on equality don’t necessarily equate their internet actions with extreme Socialism or Capitalism – its just commonsense to use the internet to improve humanity.

People share because virtuous acts are their own reward. Ethics shapes the internet not political allegiances or national and cultural identities.

By: polsenpol

polsenpol — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:47:00 +0000

I believe the correct term is ‘anti-copyleft’ ?
But yeah, sometimes his writings make me puke in disgust .
Andy, stop calling apples lemons, will you ??

By: jatb

jatb — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:55:00 +0000

Proof that an encrypted file can be transformed via a given algorithm into a non-encrypted file is trivial if the file is being shared on the web. The password has to be supplied at some stage, and the URL points to the file’s location on the disk. This can be overcome with P2P technology, where URIs do not point to specific locations.

Look into Key Norsk, they have a merger of URI+Onion Routing that might be of interest. Full disclosure: I used to work for them and really hope they succeed.

By: jatb

jatb — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:53:00 +0000

PR in common use refers to Public Relations, a field of customer-authority interaction, be it business or governmental, for-profit or non-profit.

By: jatb

jatb — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:51:00 +0000

By “something other than 7zip or Winrar” I mean all archiving programs – Winzip, Arcwhatever, Peazip, IZArc – any of them.

By: jatb

jatb — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:49:00 +0000

If the creator of the archive failed to specify “encrypt file names” at their shell, that’s hardly a failure of the format.

AES containers (for instance TrueCrypt) are certainly NOT vulnerable to such simple mistakes as the entire filesystem is encrypted.

By: Fields

Fields — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:04:00 +0000

Andy, would you mind developing your acronyms, please? PR? Piracy Reduction? Product Representative? Post-traumatic Rebuttal? Perfect Recognition? Put Right? Padawan Relocation?