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Developer's Porn Stash Gets Banned from Steam

53 points by Lammy 5y ago

Arainach 5y ago
Is this supposed to be surprising or controversial? Violating the terms of service, wasting cloud resources, and exposing the host to all sorts of legal issues are inevitably going to get you shut down. That's not new. Neither is the fact that any free/low cost cloud service will inevitably get abused by the crypto and/or porn communities until it gets heavily restricted or shut down.
- dannyw 5y ago
  I don't find this controversial, but I just find it humorous that some people are using Steam Workshop as free cloud storage now. If the developer was more clever, they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods.
  - jpoesen 5y ago
    > they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods *steganography
    - atoav 5y ago
      Just had the mental image of the dev shredding away with a steno keyboard in order to manually convert the suspicious bits into non-suspicious ones.
  - gaius_baltar 5y ago
    This will happen everywhere. I was a bit surprised when I found people using dockerhub to store warez, but was a so obvious thing after all... that's a place were big chunks of data are expected. Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-cracked-photoshop https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-c...
    - piaste 5y ago
      Those links don't hold any tags, it seems they're just using DH as a highly-ranked website to spam shady URLs in the readme. If they actually packaged pirated software as Docker images, that would be more interesting. For one it would be less annoying than the split-volume RARs that a lot of warez still gets published as :)
      - gaius_baltar 5y ago
        Oh, I did not notice this and really thought they were distributing the warez as images! The whole situation just became less interesting now.
  - rasz 5y ago
    It wasnt some people. This appears to have been a developer of video player pre-seeding workshop with Asian pr0n for Chinese market? There are other examples on steam forum of some screen savers having workshop flooded with JAV "content" by Chinese IPs. Perhaps great firewall blocks access to this type of material, and Steam is a convenient distribution channel.
  - danpalmer 5y ago
    Just a friendly FYI… Stenography: transcoding speech into text Steganography: concealing data in other non-secret data.
- bobthechef 5y ago
  Yeah, nothing controversial. This isn't even at the level of some general moral debate or whatever. Had Google banned porn from its search indices, that would be different, but it would also be a good thing that is unlikely to happen given the utility of porn as instrument for political control, Wilhem Reich-style.
bitmover 5y ago
I 100% thought this was about a mustache.
- wmf 5y ago
  I thought maybe it was about a game called "Porn Stash".
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- TechBro8615 5y ago
  Yeah, I clicked to find out what sort of simulator game this was.
ge96 5y ago
I used to compulsively store erotic images and it would take up space on hds but I made myself stop. I wouldn't look at them again so idk why I saved them. Made me think of a background nudity scanning model that cleans up your computer.
- jayd16 5y ago
  Or you could use it to automatically save the erotic images so you don't have to do it yourself. Everyone wins.
- wruza 5y ago
  It was a great opportunity to train your discipline. Sorting through personal porn archive involves the hardest control and assessment skills you couldn’t find anywhere else. I think people store porn as a form of “like” that would be otherwise too cumbersome to implement. What you do like is usually scarce and the big archive is a good training set for the future automated image search technology. Think of it as a web anonymity for the times when all your posts will be analyzed and categorized by software, but in the reverse.
  - ge96 5y ago
    Well for me it's a personal problem regarding lack of real world intimacy vs. porn. I'm not saying porn is bad. I am thankful it exists and not censored, it's my outlet. I have tried to not use it/stop but I am not really able to function/focus without that 5 min pit stop a night. The avoidance of saving content for me is trying to not enforce the fixation on a particular woman or shape or whatever... but yeah I'm still a guy so the urge is still there always. Anyway there is so much out there/so much new stuff being generated, I personally would rather watch new things than see old stuff... granted I understand some scenes may be favorites, that kind of thing... I know I have my own fetishes ha. That is interesting about the training comment, I have thought about that because I want to make sure the code I run is trustworthy so I would rather train/host it myself... and yeah you need data.
  - suifbwish 5y ago
    I suspect in the future the searches won’t really matter any more. There will be software that automatically generates ultra real synthetic porn from your favorite fetish based on a deep learning model built on representation of what you have already enjoyed.

53 points by Lammy 5y ago

Is this supposed to be surprising or controversial? Violating the terms of service, wasting cloud resources, and exposing the host to all sorts of legal issues are inevitably going to get you shut down. That's not new. Neither is the fact that any free/low cost cloud service will inevitably get abused by the crypto and/or porn communities until it gets heavily restricted or shut down.

dannyw 5y ago
I don't find this controversial, but I just find it humorous that some people are using Steam Workshop as free cloud storage now. If the developer was more clever, they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods.
- jpoesen 5y ago
  > they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods *steganography
  - atoav 5y ago
    Just had the mental image of the dev shredding away with a steno keyboard in order to manually convert the suspicious bits into non-suspicious ones.
- gaius_baltar 5y ago
  This will happen everywhere. I was a bit surprised when I found people using dockerhub to store warez, but was a so obvious thing after all... that's a place were big chunks of data are expected. Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-cracked-photoshop https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-c...
  - piaste 5y ago
    Those links don't hold any tags, it seems they're just using DH as a highly-ranked website to spam shady URLs in the readme. If they actually packaged pirated software as Docker images, that would be more interesting. For one it would be less annoying than the split-volume RARs that a lot of warez still gets published as :)
    - gaius_baltar 5y ago
      Oh, I did not notice this and really thought they were distributing the warez as images! The whole situation just became less interesting now.
- rasz 5y ago
  It wasnt some people. This appears to have been a developer of video player pre-seeding workshop with Asian pr0n for Chinese market? There are other examples on steam forum of some screen savers having workshop flooded with JAV "content" by Chinese IPs. Perhaps great firewall blocks access to this type of material, and Steam is a convenient distribution channel.
- danpalmer 5y ago
  Just a friendly FYI… Stenography: transcoding speech into text Steganography: concealing data in other non-secret data.
bobthechef 5y ago
Yeah, nothing controversial. This isn't even at the level of some general moral debate or whatever. Had Google banned porn from its search indices, that would be different, but it would also be a good thing that is unlikely to happen given the utility of porn as instrument for political control, Wilhem Reich-style.

bitmover 5y ago

I 100% thought this was about a mustache.

wmf 5y ago
I thought maybe it was about a game called "Porn Stash".
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
TechBro8615 5y ago
Yeah, I clicked to find out what sort of simulator game this was.

ge96 5y ago

I used to compulsively store erotic images and it would take up space on hds but I made myself stop. I wouldn't look at them again so idk why I saved them. Made me think of a background nudity scanning model that cleans up your computer.

jayd16 5y ago
Or you could use it to automatically save the erotic images so you don't have to do it yourself. Everyone wins.
wruza 5y ago
It was a great opportunity to train your discipline. Sorting through personal porn archive involves the hardest control and assessment skills you couldn’t find anywhere else. I think people store porn as a form of “like” that would be otherwise too cumbersome to implement. What you do like is usually scarce and the big archive is a good training set for the future automated image search technology. Think of it as a web anonymity for the times when all your posts will be analyzed and categorized by software, but in the reverse.
- ge96 5y ago
  Well for me it's a personal problem regarding lack of real world intimacy vs. porn. I'm not saying porn is bad. I am thankful it exists and not censored, it's my outlet. I have tried to not use it/stop but I am not really able to function/focus without that 5 min pit stop a night. The avoidance of saving content for me is trying to not enforce the fixation on a particular woman or shape or whatever... but yeah I'm still a guy so the urge is still there always. Anyway there is so much out there/so much new stuff being generated, I personally would rather watch new things than see old stuff... granted I understand some scenes may be favorites, that kind of thing... I know I have my own fetishes ha. That is interesting about the training comment, I have thought about that because I want to make sure the code I run is trustworthy so I would rather train/host it myself... and yeah you need data.
- suifbwish 5y ago
  I suspect in the future the searches won’t really matter any more. There will be software that automatically generates ultra real synthetic porn from your favorite fetish based on a deep learning model built on representation of what you have already enjoyed.