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Hard to block, yes, but the problem would be to find people who'd publicly share a copy or parts of scihub from their IP address.


I was just thinking about a solution for this. What if two users share files A and B, where both A and B look like noise, but when XOR-ed, they form the copyrighted work? Both users can claim plausible deniability. Especially if A XOR-ed with another file C results in a copyright-free work (and similarly for B and another file D).


Have you ever read "What colour are your bits"[0]? It discusses this idea a bit.

[0] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23


I've been seeding libgen torrents for quite a while from home without problem while many I know get desist letters from their ISP for downloading a single Disney movie.




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