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   On 3/14/2024 7:39 AM, Newyana2 wrote:   
   > "Julian Bradfield"  wrote   
   >   
   > | Why should this group help a pirate? It's not even an expensive   
   > | book.   
   >   
   >   Indeed. This project sounds so farfetched and nonsensical,   
   > as well as blatantly illegal, that I suspect the OP is doing   
   > research on attitudes about theft of copyrighted material.   
   > Maybe it's a college student, maybe cops, or maybe it's   
   > an AI bot, honing its "skills".   
   >   
   >   
      
   Did anyone write a script or commit a DMCA-punishable crime ?   
   Nope.   
      
   Some of us know what our limits are, from a legal perspective.   
   And we're not going to leave a record of our activities in   
   an open forum like this, now are we.   
      
   You would be surprised, just how chilling DMCA-crime is.   
   It's tentacles are long. It's a law you use when a DA   
   swings a big dick.   
      
   The interesting one, was the article in Medium.com , where   
   the article author claims he did a mass attack and glued   
   together Google "snippets" to make a book. Which is silly to start   
   with (it's not necessarily going to look like a book). But...   
   he was careful to obscure his code to carry out the procedure.   
   Reason. Um... Um... Gee, why would he not put his code in that   
   paid Medium article of his ? A normal analysis of the code, would   
   not reveal wrong-doing. Um... um...   
      
   This is one reason, that currently academic researchers   
   will no longer touch Skype, with a barge pole. To start with,   
   it's no longer an "exceptional" piece of work. It's less   
   interesting to study. But after the legal opinion given   
   on the study of the original Skype, the application of DMCA-crime   
   is now overreaching enough, that only Blackhats will be studying   
   the holes in the new Skype.   
      
   When is the last time you read any articles on cracking WPA3   
   (after the initial version was shown by cryptographers, before   
   it was really officially deployed, to be unsound). Well, no one   
   does that now.   
      
   So yes, I think the audience is vaguely aware of how much   
   cajoling we can do, and then... we walk away.   
      
   This is double-ungood, citizen.   
      
   This is like when the local crack dealer, leaves baggies of crack   
   all over neighbourhood sidewalks. If you pick up a bag, an   
   officer comes over and clamps the handcuffs on you. Just another   
   day in the neighbourhood.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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