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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by slg on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:22PM (#24992689)
>Can’t you argue that they have no way to know whether the other links are also infringing or whether those other users have a legitimate license for the content?

IANAL so maybe the plausible deniability here is enough legal protection, but this is an argument that rings hollow to me from a technical perspective. Usually content ripped from physical media is not stored in its original format, especially during the timeline of MegaUpload's existence. The data is going to be encoded in a different format and therefore could have a variety of different potential hashes. A bunch of people having exactly the same version of this media indicates that it is a single encoding being repeatedly shared.

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Re:Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:49PM (#24992902)
Media encoders are generally deterministic. If you use two different encoders or two different configurations you'll get two different outputs, but two people using a given popular encoder with its default settings on the same input are generally going to get identical output.
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