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So you're one of the people that buys into the whole "It's easy to tell what files are legally shared" and it's just not true. Which is proven time and time aga
by throwaway125 14y ago
So you're one of the people that buys into the whole "It's easy to tell what files are legally shared" and it's just not true. Which is proven time and time again when publishing companies send DMCA takedown requests for the content another department in their company published intentionally.
Almost everything is covered by copyright, it's indeed not too hard to figure out if something is covered by copyright. It's much harder to figure out who owns the copyright on something, and it's almost impossible to figure out if a certain file is authorized by the copyright owner.
Just because a file is popular doesn't mean it's infringing. Can you guarantee this popular file wasn't posted on twitter by the artist for a marketing campaign? Can you guarantee the artist didn't upload it to a torrent site to get attention? No, you can't. You'll just take a flamethrower approach and many legitimate files will be removed in the process.
- narag 14y agoI took for granted that most ingringement policy is done locating the links in forums, checking if they really point to copyrighted content, then requesting the file locker to remove the file. Actually I can't see how encryption could change this procedure. It seems a technical solution applied to a social problem.
- mrgoldenbrown 14y agoYou can't take for granted that anyone actually checks the file contents. I'm pretty sure the laser printers that got sent takedown notices weren't actually sharing any content.
- narag 14y agoI didn't mean that every denounce comes from content inspection, just that this is the most common case and that encryption couldn't stop it: if it's public, someone can inspect it.