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to 1: Rapidshare is considered a provider/service. They cannot be responsible for things done "through" them. Same like ISPs or E-Mail providers. 3 plays into t
by aw3c2 17y ago
to 1: Rapidshare is considered a provider/service. They cannot be responsible for things done "through" them. Same like ISPs or E-Mail providers. 3 plays into this. RS could not manually check all files and it obviously is not possible to automate it either.
to 3b: part of the claim was that "if a file is of the RAR format, that is a clear hint at being a movie file" which the judges identified as false (sometimes they ARE smart).
to 3c: most germans are on dynamic IPs that change all 24h.
everything seems to be intepreted correctly.
- jacquesm 17y agoThanks! I'm very impressed by the technical smarts of the judges in this case, but I do think that a hash on a file (say a 512 bit hash) in combination with the filename would be good enough to warrant automatic removal, I really wonder if this will hold up in the longer term.
- ars 17y agoA hash would be worthless. Just rar it again with slightly different options and you have a different hash.
- jacquesm 17y agoOn the rar file yes, but on the file that is packed not. After all the rar compressor is 'lossless'.
- silvestrov 17y agoThen put the modified rar inside another rar (i.e. nest it). And both rars can be password protected, so RS can't even check the first rar.
- IChrisI 17y agoAdd IllegalFile and RandomData.txt to a password protected rar. The hash is essentially random, you can't check the contents, and the illegal file is easily retrievable if the downloader knows the password.
- eru 17y agoPassword protection (or other cryptography) aside, you can make `hashes' that are similar for similar files. This way if you only added a short RandomData.txt the hashes wouldn't differ too much.