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MEGA could have made byte-identical content de-dupable yet still unreadable to MEGA.. which would save storage space but might still retain the whack-a-mole qua
by geogriffin 11y ago
MEGA could have made byte-identical content de-dupable yet still unreadable to MEGA.. which would save storage space but might still retain the whack-a-mole quality: if your upload gets taken down, you may simply change any one byte in the file and re-upload. does MEGA do this? and if not, I wonder why not?
- hlieberman 11y agoProbably not. That's one of the things that had Megaupload jammed up. I think, in this case, disk space is cheaper than the lawyers' fees.
- geogriffin 11y agoah so they weren't even asked to ID content in a smarter way, like YouTube does? if their goal was really to enable piracy, did they think pirates would really give up without finding out that they could simply insert random bytes to evade takedown? Though I guess that would end up killing their de-duping rate anyway..
- MattHeard 11y agoIf the files are encrypted with different keys based on the URL, the files wouldn't be byte-identical.