Did a little digging around. It looks like they manage to get discovery judgments all the time over partial downloads, but I don’t see them actually taking anyone to court for anything less than a full file.

Once you have the entire file available, it’s hard to shimmy around the distribution claims. Wouldn’t it be super effing interesting if everyone’s torrent client specifically picked a random block and refused to give it to anyone?

I’m not sure it would hold up in court, but it would be interesting.

I hope to hell we’re not infectious, but I worry for everyone, everywhere, eventually. I’m afraid we’re just ahead of the curve.

You’ll still have to be careful they’re targeting people with sensory issues and neurodivergence next.

You know, it would be a really neat browser plug-in. Mouse over a URL and get the encoded bit decoded?

Yeah, no dice, the better sensors these days don’t have any problem with that. Check out Project Farms recent doorbell camera review. He actually walks up to the doorbell camera with a full on flashlight in the pitch black of night and they still have no problem.

Yeah, a high-res image giving the position of ears, eyes, and nose is damning.

ears and eyes alone give you a shocking amount of identifyability. We’re getting real fucking close to the CSI levels of facial identification.

It’s only a matter of time before this is everywhere. It’s spreading like the plague it is. When it finally gets down to just the last few providers, they’ll be watching them like a hawk.

We need some kind of peer-to-peer network with plausible deniability built-in. like you decrypt all the chunks forward and you get segments of Linux ISOs. And if you decrypt them backwards, you get the actual payload. Old school Vera Crypt style.

There are a couple of peertube servers that aren’t horrible. TILVids is particularly decent.

But until somebody works out monetization for these people, it’s probably going to be Slim Pickings.

At a minimum, peertube is going to need to support private videos for Patreon to have proper effect.

The very platform you’re clinging to is on Death’s Door and they’re actively breaking YouTube’s terms of service while still using the service.

None of the other platforms are even close to replacing YouTube. They can’t handle the scale or the features. And none of them are heading towards being able to accomplish this.

YouTube is a capitalist utopia funded with more money than God. They provide unlimited free storage and transmission of all videos sent to their platform. They fleece videos for copyright and legal impingements. They gather corporations willing to spend on advertisements and link them directly to end users uploading data, and when they reach a threshold, they pay them.These funds pay for the unlimited amounts of storage at levels that no other platform could handle.

The other platforms that are open to us don’t make enough money to do any of those things. We’re relying on the funding, development, and administration of a couple of generous strangers.

Clarification:

CERT Fd up and called two whitehat disclosure accounts malicious

Proton did not check these accounts before they torched them.

Specifically for the type of privacy and security that Proton offers, I would expect a slightly higher level of customer service. Perhaps a message to the end user saying we are considering terminating your account. And giving you a chance to appeal before you knock it out.

This is by far not the worst thing they’ve done and in some sense it’s not completely unreasonable. But I think they could do better.

My best guess would be your friend is being thoroughly tracked and they know who he semt the data to and they have a basic mapping of you.

Yeah, he didn’t think he’d be held accountable in his wildest dreams. I guess he thought if Alex Jones didn’t get shot, he wouldn’t either.

ohh, i’m not here to argue with you, and you’re not about to change my mind.

I’m just pointing out that no matter how much you write, you’re not winning anything in the court of public opinion here.

I think you have a rather unfortunate bias here. You’re not going to win anyone over to the argument that"almost a paedophile is fine" concept. The vast majority are going to find it morally reprehensible. They’re going to say barely legal is not morally nominal.

You have an opinion, it’s yours. It’s not an opinion that you’re going to defend and change people’s minds on, though. They’re going to see you as a paedophile supporter, whether you consider that to be your situation or not.

Not OP, Remember, it’s hard to read true tone through text. It read to me is sarcasm, but not particularly spicy, and also not entirely inaccurate.

I do wish we could all have less tone issues. This place is getting a bit toxic, but fuck, it’s still better than Reddit.

;)

No company will break the law for you, but you can, on occasion, manage to do business with a company in a location where the laws are favorable to your activity.

Exit all your torrent traffic in a country that doesn’t care enough to hunt you down.

And they should avoid indoor closed events, and streams, closed circuit TV, recordings digital or analog.

Unless it’s comedy or sarcasm, we should probably just dispense with the propaganda and do real news and fact-checking.

Hey Fred, do we still have that manifesto and gun we used with Mangione? I think we’re gonna need it again.

Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.

“European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions”

That’s the stage the US was at about 15 years ago.

Which is actually a bit of a problem, he’s been pretty effective at being a propaganda spreading machine.

I will say that seeing all his no empathy pro-gun death comments coming back to be used against him does warm the cockles of my heart.