Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:49:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) Message-ID: <201107190549.p6J5n6sP028960@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <E5F8B6EB-C059-4F4D-87E2-EFE4B300983F@d3photography.com>
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> From editor@d3photography.com Tue Jul 19 00:05:30 2011
> Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )
> From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:05:27 -0500
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:01:53 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com
> >> Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )
> >>
> >> Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> <snip specific suggestions re awk(1), file(1), find(1), grep(1), etc.>
> >>
> >> All well and good for locating files of a certain format and/or with
> >> particular content, but it doesn't address the question of whether a
> >> specific copy is "legal", i.e. did the user who put it there have the
> >> legal right to put it there?
> >
> > {{ Noting that the troll contributed nothing constructive to the OP's
> > problem, _or_ to dealing with the pseudo-issue he raises. }}
> >
> > Obviously the ankle-biter was incapable of reading the ACTUAL REQUEST
> > the OP made:
> >
> > "Anyone knows an utility that I could pipe to the "find" command
> > in order to detect video, music, games ... etc files ?
> >
> > I need a tool that could "inspect" inside files because many users
> > rename those filename to "inoffensive" ones :-)"
> >
> > NOTE WELL that the OP was _smart_enough_ -- unlike the prior poster --
> > to ask about something that _can_ be done mechanically.
> >
> > Furthermore, it was _explicit_ in the actual suggestion that it only
> > produced a list possible 'suspects' -- It did _not_ provide any
> > indication of status -- 'legal', or otherwise.
>
> Go to hell.
I recommend you take your own advice -- then you might have an opportunity
to learn "what the hell" you're talking about.
> He wants to rename the files that are illegal to ones that
> aren't.
Have you got *anything* to support that =libelous= accusation?
While you're at it, I dare you to attempt to explain how 'renaming' a
file can _possibly_ make it 'legal' if it were not so before the renaming..
Next, _if_ he was doing that, can you explain _why_ he needed to look 'inside'
the file for content type?
He is specifically attempting to find content that has *ALREADY* been
'concealed' in 'innocuous' file names.
> That's circumventing copyright law and would land him or her in
> jail.
THAT statement is 'libel per se', and, as such, actionable defamation.
> This topic, based solely on ethics, should not be discussed as any
> suggestions that this is LEGAL to do supports copyright violations.
STRAWMAN ALERT!!
BOGON ALERT!!
"This topic" -- meaning *YOUR* "false to fact" assumption about the OP
'renaming' copyright-infringing files to avoid detection -- exists *ONLY*
in your depraved imagination.
Since there is =nothing= in this discussion, up to this point, that touchs
on the point _at_all_, It is *pure*fiction* to postulate that there have
been any suggestions that 'this is legal'.
In point of actual FACT, the OP, a _system_administrator_, is attempting
to ferret out possible COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS -- of the type you so vehemently
oppose -- BY HIS USERS.
Yet, for some reason, you are opposed to those who are offering said admin
assistince in FINDING THE VIOLATIONS.
> I would record those names and DELETE them but only if the TOS supports
> it.
You *do* realize that doing _that_ would make *you* potentially liable for
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION for 'intentionally destroying evidence' of a crime,
don't you?
> If it does not, then you get the DCMA notice
You *REALLY*are an ignoramus, aren't you?
Did you notice _where_ the OP was posting from?
Do you have any idea of the geographic limits of the DMCA?
Did you notice that the OP, a system administrator, has _already_ received
a legal notice about 'infringing' files on his system?
> and handle it
> accordingly from the copyright holder.
>
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