https://cuiiliste.de/domains

(not official, open-accessed the secret list)

The blocking system can be real-time without the source list being updated immediately upon change evaluation requests.

Such lists will most definitely have false positives added, and way too many outdated entries because nobody managing them or requesting changes has an interest or investment in keeping the list up-to-date (beyond adding new entries for themselves) and narrow.

Even with juridical review, I’m not very hopeful about its quality in terms of technical expertise and nuanced and appropriate application.

You could have at least transformed the inaccessible video form into text.

It seems like they’re referring to https://github.com/Batlez/ChatGPT-Jailbroken/, where you can check the source code.

To me it looks like all that does is make some kind of placeholder replacement, and there’s some kind of custom prompt storage and retrieval.

Either way, if it does what you expect it to, doing more than intended by the service provider, it only works until they fix some checks or make some UI changes, and they may hold you accountable for evading technical measures to gain more than you subscribed (and paid) for.

Personally, I wouldn’t trust integrating a random third party logic on a registered service. At the very least, I would disable auto-updating or copy/fork it.

I don’t see them claiming it being “safe to download”. I assume you’re taking the implication or assumption as advocation and a safety assessment.

Depending on what you mean by “safe”, no it’s not safe.

I’m not familiar with the ChatGPT service in particular.

Can you describe the curvature of the hill as a mathematical function? Just so I can get a better picture of it.

Pay what? A physical copy? A digital license for streaming on a platform? A digital rental? A month of streaming service that includes it? Taking free access and public libraries (like public broadcasting libraries), temporary or time-limited into account? There’s way too much variance to make any reasonable assessment on this.

To get an idea of price variance, even without monthly services, which make individual consumption cheaper still, let’s look at the value of digital products on Steam.

Comparing my Steam account value calculated by SteamDB, the “lowest value” is 23% of the “value today”. Taking into account that prices reduce significantly over time, you could put it much lower.

How do you expect people to calculate “if you had to pay for every item”?

Earlier this year Japanese lawmakers were shocked to realize that illegal consumption of manga cost the industry around 1 trillion yen.

Why do articles quoting shit like this never contextualize it?

I assume these numbers are, like they always are, a consumption = loss of buy equation, which is not a realistic calculation at all.

The article talks at length about accessibility, yet fails to point to that issue when quoting these “cost” numbers.

It’s not like they’re hosting any of those. It’s not costing them anything. At most it should be labeled loss, but an equation makes no sense then either.

Comparison of BitTorrent clients - Wikipedia; qBittorrent, Tixati, BiglyBT, BitComet

cuiiliste.de is an effort (of one person) to make the list and its effects transparent, and inform about how you can switch DNS.

A magnet link can be used to download the torrent file.

They’re only more private in the sense that the link itself is not a torrent file you download and open. Instead, it’s a link to that torrent file, downloadable through bittorrent.

It doesn’t make your downloading any more private.

How do they make their service “not available” to a country?

By IP address location? Which, in my understanding, is not accurate.

By terms, stating “you can’t use it if you live there”?

https://www.wipo.int/en/web/wipo-alert

Who can use WIPO ALERT?

Advertisers, advertising agencies and their technical service providers can apply to become authorized users of WIPO ALERT in order to access aggregated lists of infringing websites from around the world.

They can use this information in their automated advertising systems to avoid placing advertisements on such sites. In this way, they can avoid subsidizing copyright infringement and protect their brands from the negative reputational effect of association with illegal activities.

The WIPO database is to protect advertising brands? Lol. Not what I was expecting, and pretty absurd to me.

So, can we see the list?

Authorized Users enter into a simple agreement with WIPO which provides that the User will use the data obtained through WIPO ALERT exclusively for preventing the misplacement of advertising on copyright-infringing websites and that it will use its best endeavors to keep the data confidential. The reason for the second restriction is that some countries feel that their lists of copyright-infringing websites should not be publicized, to avoid encouraging visits to those sites.

Confidential.

So, if it’s some countries’ agencies or orgs reporting or something, how accurate is the list?

Does WIPO guarantee the accuracy of the data on WIPO ALERT?

No. WIPO is simply providing a service to its Member States and to the international advertising industry in facilitating global access to data compiled at national level. The national agencies which create the lists of sites remain solely responsible for their contents.

Who is it?

World Intellectual Property Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).

WIPO was created to promote and protect intellectual property (IP) across the world by cooperating with countries as well as international organizations

I wonder if you could get the list as press or data protection offices or under some transparency laws.

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology.

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windows terminal is inferior

Note that there is an application called Windows Terminal and that’s a terminal, not a shell. You can run any shell in it (including alternative or WSL shells).

I primarily use native Nushell via Windows Terminal.

You’re not stuck with PowerShell or batch on Windows.

found a movie, but […] it wouldn’t play

So it played… you /s

--please, -please, please, -p, -P, man sudo, man make 🤔 I’ll find the flag eventually!

It’s kind of crazy that video content is exempt from the EU single market. What was the reasoning for that? The link to the previous article doesn’t even mention it - was written seemingly before it came into action or was defined.

What it does mention is why it’s so critical.

Due to complicated licensing agreements Netflix is only available in a few dozen countries, all of which have a different content library.

And also

This means that consumers will have the right to access content they purchased at home in other European countries.

If you have a single market, and free travel (Schengen), being able to access and buy content in them is substantial, or would otherwise subvert them.

If it’s only regional, I can at least see some reasoning; the purchasing power varies quite a bit between countries. But still, there’s the question of how that relates to and opposes the idea and conditions of a single market. And it certainly doesn’t warrant geo-blocking like what you have access to or can buy. Regional pricing could be implemented by a law-defined or -restricted simple factor based on purchasing power.

Steam does different regional prices even within Europe too, right?

From the linked website: Public consultation (feedback) will be open in the second quarter of 2025.

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That’s already a thing, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to or asking.

Video can be encrypted with DRM, and only play on devices with DRM module or decryption.

When you can play and see the video on your screen, through your web browser or media player, and then stream your desktop to a TV, you may not be able to see the video if it’s DRM protected against that.

YouTube already used DRM for many years, but only on select videos. Youtube-dl was criticized and attacked for having decryption code and test cases / explicitly referenced protected videos/video URLs, effectively meaning promoting or instructing DRM circumvention, which is illegal in many jurisdictions (moreso than downloading or playing unprotected media).

That’s why yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) does not include that DRM decryption - AFIK anyway.

The main webbrowsers include DRM related stuff to be able to play them back. Those who want to ship their own have this additional barrier to reach feature parity. And distributors or operating systems like Debian that want to distribute only free code can’t include them.

This is from the top of my head. So excuse me if anything is wrong or overly broad.