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I started to embrace the lack of control in the media I created years ago, I accept the fact that by using the internet to share media I lose ownership when I a
by bArray 8y ago
I started to embrace the lack of control in the media I created years ago, I accept the fact that by using the internet to share media I lose ownership when I allow people to make copies (even temporary). It will be pirated, evasive actions only slow it down.
I remember when picture websites used to disable right click and we either used to screenshot images or get them from the source. I remember when Youtube went to tonnes of effort to prevent people ripping videos from their site, only to be defeated by screen recording software. People listening to their favourite songs on the radio used to just record them on their phone's microphone.
When people start thinking of the internet as the Wild West it is, they might start actually appreciating how dangerous it is to be interacting with. I have bots smashing my website 24/7 crawling data for various search engines, I have people mass downloading content, bots trying to spam my site, bots trying to hack my site (mainly PHP), using proxies, VPNs, Tor, etc. And that's just on port 80. Port 22...