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I just had an epiphany.

I believe I can end piracy in the United States, or so significantly reduce it as to be believed.

The idea is not to complex or difficult. It can be done in a manner that won't cost much money.



So the thread is about the consequences of ending illegal software downloads.

I believe this is technically feasible, can be implemented in less than 2 years, would increase profits short term for some logistics side companies and manufactorers, and would make hackers cry.

Yeah some regions won't be greatly affected, especially Russia and China... but many Western nations would be easily 'fixed'.

So what will happen? Will places like RIAA see an upsurge in legit sales? Will hackers adjust? Will the 'lost revenue' never come due to people just giving up? What will happen?


Btw for the record I have been working on the issue of online piracy since the year 2000. It has been an ongoing project where I have studied mechanical, software, political, criminal, socialogical, and other methods to stop software piracy. Yes not all my time is dedicated to it but I review it mentally time to time as I drive down the road.

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where did u say u lived again??

and do u have this all written down in a book or on your computer?......


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I am driving my semi-truck to an undisclosed location, it is written in a notepad (not on computer type, old school stuff), and I am contacting RIAA (and others) in roughly 5 hours.

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i think hackers would adjust on a serious note, they keep changing the security on computer games all the time and yet they continue to be hacked/cracked....


i think this is why a lot of gaming companies are focusing on online game play....

as for songs, movies, and TV show's, i would think it almost impossible to stop them from being pirated and put onto the internet

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Lmfao



hackers will make u piss dude.....pfffft....gl with trying to.stop us

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authorize companies to hack on pirates and destroy their hardware with malware


problem solved

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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Ha

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8 Reply by Einstein (edited by Einstein 14-Aug-2012 21:33:34)

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Chris there is multiple problems with that idea

1) the Hash tag defense
While not perfect it is a sound first line

Hash tags are a numerical value assigned to a string of code and is used to validate a portion of a file as error free. Most modern hackers use hash tags from multiple source to prevent viruses and buggy bytes. It is built into the systems.

2) The rating system used by most torrent sites and similar sites.
Google? Ha! Not even! Users can identify a shared file as good, bad, or malware on most file share systems. Some file share systems are close knit and all users know each other as much as Chris and I know each other.

A bad file won't get enough good ratings versus downloads and will be obvious.


3) File size changes
Say a music file is 10,567 bytes. If your version is 11,832 bytes it will be obviously an issue.


4) Whiteboarding
This is the process where no file downloaded can initiate on its own and just is taken as code like on a chalkboard. This prevents self initiating viruses.


5) Virus Scans
Will catch a lot of issues.

6) virtual settings
I can set my laptop up to run a virtual version of itself, so I can watch what will happen when I run some code. This is done by engineers and developers a decent amount and I have been trained how to do this.

When a program tries to access... let's say... the video card... instead it is given a handshake as if the video card is being communicated with and a simulation (albiet with only vga level graphics) is launched. This allows you to detect bad code in action.


Seriously Chris... computers are for the 1337.

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Is this going to be as successful as your compression method?

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And to misquote Stanley Baldwin, "the pirate will always get through".

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I am not suffering deep depression, so yes... I will cripple filesharing

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No, you won't.

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>1) the Hash tag defense
While not perfect it is a sound first line<

What is that?

>>2) The rating system used by most torrent sites and similar sites.<<

Take them out too. Yeah that's right, screw Google.

>>3) File size changes<<

I'm talking scorched earth meltdown of the hardware.  You can't change anything if the CPU is melted.

>>4) Whiteboarding<<

Not sure what that means but I feel certain enough destruction of hardware will solve that

>>5) Virus Scans<<

Already playing catchup, and I'm talking about Microsoft getting letters of marque to hire Bulgarian hackers to destroy wannabes.

>6) virtual settings<

Virtual setting: OFF

Effective cyber defenses and false addresses should be logged as proof of conspiracy justifying an audit of the server by qualified operatives.  Meaning, a no-knock raid and physical destruction of the server and the wall behind it.

Do that often enough and we'd solve piracy.  Maybe we'd take the global economy back to 1986...but hey, that was a very good year

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Chris you just made me cry, and made my day.

For once I definitively know much more than you. I just got back language I would expect from a grandpa.

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If you did have a new way to combat pirates, then the pirates will find a way to break it, and they will break it... For technological efforts to stop piracy, note Sony with the PS3 who stated it was completley immune to hacking, and it was hacked and cracked within months of the statement coming out. A patch was sent out by sony which covered the hole and was stated to be mandatory and the pirates found away to block it and keep the ps3 working, and a way to retro-fit their hack after the patch went on...

If your solution is not technology based, then the fact humans are human will mean it will fail.

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17 Reply by The Yell (edited by The Yell 14-Aug-2012 21:44:34)

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the technology to equip drones with micronukes is extant and therefore we made be said to be within months of deployment of a Total Electronic Emissions Shield capable of eliminating 100% of computer viruses stored or being transmitted by whatever medium...all that is required is actual production of the EMP vehicles and the political will to employ them

Political will should be accumulated by a "Reboot America" campaign overtly touting the benefits of a total cleansing of the internet, coupled with a false  underground campaign rumoring that foriegn oil interests are criminally conspiring to deny the American public the benefits of an EMP event, because the price of oil would be reset automatically to the pre-Internet levels

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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I'm confused. You claimed to have an easy solution, then you failed to post what it is. What the [cluck].

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Now now, Mr. Spock. It's only logical that Einstein doesn't wish the pirate thieves to profit by racing to be the first to publish and market his allegedly brilliant scheme first. wink

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It's like the Twilight Zone on this forum.

Complete incoherence is just ignored. And then repeated shortly thereafter.

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