Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:05:27 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc ) Message-ID: <E5F8B6EB-C059-4F4D-87E2-EFE4B300983F@d3photography.com> In-Reply-To: <201107190323.p6J3NSHM028311@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201107190323.p6J3NSHM028311@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:01:53 -0700
>> From: perryh@pluto.rain.com
>> Subject: Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )
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>> Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
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>> <snip specific suggestions re awk(1), file(1), find(1), grep(1), =
etc.>
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>> 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?
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> {{ Noting that the troll contributed nothing constructive to the OP's
> problem, _or_ to dealing with the pseudo-issue he raises. }}
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> Obviously the ankle-biter was incapable of reading the ACTUAL REQUEST
> the OP made:
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> "Anyone knows an utility that I could pipe to the "find" command
> in order to detect video, music, games ... etc files ?
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> I need a tool that could "inspect" inside files because many users
> rename those filename to "inoffensive" ones :-)"
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> NOTE WELL that the OP was _smart_enough_ -- unlike the prior poster -- =
to
> ask about something that _can_ be done mechanically.
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> Furthermore, it was _explicit_ in the actual suggestion that it only=20=
> produced a list possible 'suspects' -- It did _not_ provide any =
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> of status -- 'legal', or otherwise.
Go to hell. He wants to rename the files that are illegal to ones that =
aren't. That's circumventing copyright law and would land him or her in =
jail. This topic, based solely on ethics, should not be discussed as any =
suggestions that this is LEGAL to do supports copyright violations.
I would record those names and DELETE them but only if the TOS supports =
it. If it does not, then you get the DCMA notice and handle it =
accordingly from the copyright holder.
-r-=
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