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how to go straight to jail 101


You are only downloading metadata, and csam content is filtered. But yes, I would also rate it as a legally risky activity


> csam content is filtered

Filtered how? By some keywords I don't want to know? What about encrypted zips of CSAM? There's no way to filter that in reality.

If you want to learn more about why and you can either speak German or can handle youtubes auto translate i recommend this documentation on the matter[0]. The Pedo Criminals are using scene methods to share their illegal content.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndk0nfppc_k


Would it matter if it's metadata-only until you download?


Yes, a simple keyword list in the classifier, matched on the torrent name and file names. Easy enough to find in the source if you look for it. That filter won't help against people uploading CSAM as documents.7z. But any filter that would want to do something against that would require downloading the content, which would be even more illegal (in addition to being wildly impractical)


why not just exclude encrypted zips?


bitmagnet only has the info you get by looking up the infohash in the dht, which is basically the same info that's stored in a .torrent file: a name, a list of files with offsets and paths, and a bunch of block hashes. That's not a lot to go on, and e.g. doesn't tell you if the zip is encrypted

I guess you could filter all torrents that include just zips/rars/7zips. That would exclude a lot of harmless content. Probably too much harmless content to make it a default, but if you only care about hollywood releases it would be a useful filter

If there was a public list of hashes of (8/18KiB blocks of) CSAM content that would be useful for a filter, but I don't think such a thing exists


> If there was a public list of hashes of (8/18KiB blocks of) CSAM content that would be useful for a filter, but I don't think such a thing exists

But wouldn't that just be a list of CSAM to look up?


Hence its public absence.


Does running an indexer and crawler help make the content available to others, or why would this be legally risky? Why would anyone care about what kind of Docker container I run on my home server?


not beating the copyright allegations


you added the ultimate captive portal to a website a black wall without any more info asking for people email and data from google login D:


He is keeping the price of the land low for his next investment


i recommend looking this video from the author of one of the books cited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gitzyxBsg


the weakest link... in the layer?


It almost burned my notebook from 60° to 95°, great site <3


at the end: maybe not even wrong


countdown to mental decline, now thats a downer haha


Sometime in this century humans will likely figure out how to add a couple extra healthy decades to the average lifespan.

Depends on our effort to discover it, of course.

Take care of yourself now.


In the last 100 years, the average life expectancy of a 50 year old male in, say, western europe has increased by less that a decade.

Several decades more? Not gonna happen.


“The life expectancy at birth for men has increased by 20.5 years, from 58.8 years in 1920–1922 to 79.3 years in 2009–2011.”

Not sure what it would have been given you were 50 years old in 1920.

Anyway, you seem to not believe that science over the next 60-80 years will advance much.

People live to be over 100 today. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out why.

Science will advance more in the next 50 years than it did in the last 100.


I was talking about life expectancy for a 50 year old. Life expectancy at birth has increased significantly more because of reduced risk of death for newborns, infants and even teenagers. But once you are of a certain age, those risks are gone, and there not much has changed.

No, I don't believe in scifi. Theses are all fantasies. Just as little as I believe in living on mars being a great alternative to earth. Nice scifi story, but in real life, things are different.

If you just look at the spread obesity in the U.S. and its effect on life expectancy, please tell me again with a straight face that you expect "people live to be over 100" in the future. And no, they don't today. You are talking about a really really small minority, and that minority was already there 50 years ago. In 1970.

Edit: Life expectancy for a 50 yeah old in 1920 in Sweden was about 9 years shorter than today.


Why, yes people do live to be over 100 in certain groups:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think we’ll figure out how to extend this to more people.

Sure, if you don’t take care of yourself, science can only do so much.


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