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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

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.

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.