Project to save `` history of copyright infringement on the Internet '' is ongoing
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“ Warez ” refers to the exchange of commercial software and electronic content in an illegal manner. In Japan, illegal downloading is called “cracking” from Warez. Illegal distribution, sale, or download that infringed copyright has been done for a long time, and a project called `` collecting metadata from copyright infringing websites and creating an index and leaving a history of copyright infringement '' in progress.
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Archivists Are Saving the History of Internet Piracy-VICE
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Distributions on the Internet that have been infringed on copyrights are not necessarily downloadable with the intended software or content alone. Sometimes the ' .nfo file' that comes with the content comes with a variety of metadata such as ASCII art, description, pirated group logos and brand names.
Warez's history is very old, and illegal copying of software has been done in Japan since the late 1970s, and the metadata records attached to pirated editions record decades of ups and downs of the underground subculture. It is also a thing. According to the technology media Motherboard, a person who calls himself “ Archivist ” “collects and indexes copyright infringement metadata” to catalog the ever-changing Internet history. I am doing a project called.
Archivist has been focused on collecting all the history on the Internet, such as `` metadata of movies posted on YouTube including deleted ones '' and `` a lot of content posted on Instagram ' '. It was. Archivist says the funds for these projects are all donated.
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'Copyright infringing file metadata includes unique artwork, information about the group itself that distributes pirated copies infringing copyrights, issues within and between groups, member adherence, and law enforcement attacks. ”, How the group collects content, cracking, etc.,” said Archivist, arguing that these metadata provide clues about the history of the huge online world.
Like YouTube and Instagram content, the big problem with tracking and collecting piracy metadata is that the related files are too large. Archivist has already downloaded a large number of SRR files from pirated sites such as ` ` srrdb.com '' and has decompressed and compressed files over 400 GB, but when the project is completed, the total amount of data in the index is 5 TB It seems to be exceeded.
In general, copyrighted content and websites, including pirated copies, tend to be left behind from attempts to archive content on the Internet. Although copyright infringement only covers the aspect of “malicious behavior”, copyright infringement often serves as a form of “invisible competition” and contributes to the enhancement of official content and streaming services. It has also been pointed out .
Of course, distributing and selling files that infringe copyright is against the law, but “the long history of copyright infringement subcultures that have been around since 1975 is worth archiving,” Motherboard said. Said.
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