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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by mdoms on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:03PM (#29371167)
The analog hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by squarefoot on Sunday November 28, 2021 @02:28PM (#29372055)
Which is one of the reasons behind the removal of the headphone analog output from various devices.
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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by betterunix2 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:17PM (#29372531)
Which only raises the price of exploiting the analog hole by a relatively small amount -- it is not hard to buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio as it is being played, and the postprocessing needed to make it sound like the original is not very complex. A few thousand dollars (maybe low tens of thousands) wuold be enough to get you a rig that records a high-def movie with little noticeable loss, and anecdotally I have heard of such systems being used to rip TV shows as they air.
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Re:“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says by goodpoint on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:37PM (#29372735)
> buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio

Huh?! You can just buy a sound card or even a DAC for very little.

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