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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
Doubtful that this form of filtering could be achieved without ISP's snooping on all incoming data streams of their customers.
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ISP's? I think we are talking about public internet file hosting sites, not ISP's.
Whenever they do a takedown, they should obtain a hash* for the book. As a programmer, this doesn't seem onerous to me. It might take a lot of processing for large movie files, but, as a reader -- not my concern
Then, whenever uploading something that fits in the size range of a book, software would check the database of taken down hashes and make sure it didn't match. If you consider that snooping, well, I'm pretty sure they are already doing it, for all uploads, to see if it is on the child pornography hash list. So there's no new snoop.
Are there ways the pirate uploader can get around this? Yes, I can think of several. However, complicating piracy means fewer copies available for download at any one time, and less piracy. No law enforcement action stops all crime, but this would help.
As for people who are storing their own copies, I would think that, except for a small number of book collectors with thousands of saved titles, they can easily fit in free private cloud storage, like Windows OneDrive. That is, unless I am wrong, outside the normal scope of takedown notices.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Copyright holders' rights should not trump due process simply because due process is time-consuming and difficult.
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This seems to me an objection to the current takedown system. I don't see how taking down the same book again raises a new issue.
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* A character string that can uniquely identify the contents of a file while being far shorter than the original.