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I could try, but they are operated by twitch so i somehow doubt they will do that?

Ive tried that, but have so far been unable to find a number that has not previously been used for twitch and after a few failed attempts, twitch stops sending out codes.

Ive also experimented with scraping but i am unable to form the request in a way that does not yield 403 for this and howlongtobeat for instance. I did get responses from rawg.io but while it seemed they have a lot of games, stuff like playtime didnt seem too reliable to me (europa univeralis 4 being sub 10hr for example… :p) and ive also yet to find a way to generate all urls to go through all their game pages (urls contain game name, not incremental ids).

Lol not very imaginative then i suppose? I want to make a fun hobby project for myself and a niche audience. Thats how i can have this idea. And i am simply gauging if this approach could be used without getting fucked with fines and legal issues.

It would be downloadable because im not sure how i would serve it for playback without it also being possible to download. There would be no big “download the song here” button. The goal is not to share song files but to discuss songs i like and allow readers to play along (whole song, parts of song, whatever suits the blog post). Side effect of that is that it would be downloadable.

If you mean that “facilitation of piracy” is anything where someone would be able to obtain an illegal copy of the song then yea sure, but in that case youtube is already the biggest facilitator of piracy there is because it is trivial to download any song from there.

Yea im leaning towards embedding it externally instead - too many uncertainties. Ill see what i can find that could fill the same role i had envisioned :)

That was pretty cool!

Either they tell you very sternly to stop, and you do. If not, they may take action, either against you or your host.

This is mostly what i am hoping will happen - that the first step is always going to give me a chance to comply with a request to remove it.

I mean, if you want to facilitate piracy, that’s one thing, but don’t consult social media about it — consult a lawyer instead.

On the contrary, it is not to facilitate piracy (as in the goal is not to serve files for illegal download), it will include links to legal avenues of purchase and download. Its just that i am thinking about a particular style of embedding this within a blog post that would require me to host the file on my own server - and then that song would be downloadable for anyone who want to (even though i have no explicit “download button”).

Cheers - it is the “practical answer” that i hope will be the case, ie being able to comply with a request to take it down. I am fine with complying with this. In most cases it will be single songs from some artist i enjoy listening to with links to their pages on bandcamp or qobuz or the like where any reader could purchase the full album drm free.

My impression was that most countries have been forced to implement similar dmca laws (as per corey doctorow’s account at least)? I thought that most of these things were enforceable cross-border

However, what I would do is go ahead and then wait for the DMCA request. I think you could then decide what action to take going forward.

Id be fine taking stuff down if there was a request, but id then want to only take down whatever song/songs triggered the request. Just dont wanna be on the hook for a lot of fines before i had the chance to respond.

You could provide links to YouTube, SoundCloud, Qobuz and loads more like ReverbNation (mainly for new/upcoming artists), with links to online tools for downloading etc.

The idea is to make it pretty integrated and keep things inside the blog post with a simple player widget. And im not a big fan of spotify and youtube etc so would want to avoid linking to them if possible. I intend to include links for legal purchase and downloads of the song (+ full album and any other thing from the same artist/band, on qobuz or bandcamp and similar sites that sell drm-free music).

Click “visit random instance” a couple of times until you hit an instance that works

And dont feel bad for random rights holders of dead musicians or musicians who are already filthy rich. If your music taste is limited to taylor swift and some up and coming indie artist make sure the whole budget goes to that up and coming artist…

Yup they suck. Gave up piracy for streaming services once, wont get suckered in again if an attractive new service comes along unless there is some proper ownership involved. But i cant really see that happening.

As a norwegian who is back to pirating after a break of around 10-12 years, it is not primarily a cost issue. Hell with hardware investments it is costing me more tho that includes stuff for gaming (roms, i currently dont pirate pc games).

What it is is a service issue. Self curated collection of movies and shows beats the fragmented shit that is current streaming platforms not to mention the flood of utter garbage on tgese platforms you have to sift thru to find somethinf worth watching. Not to mention the privacy aspects and in general the “ownership” model (ie licensing without really knowing the terms).

Fuck that shit and im never getting fooled again.

Thats pretty cool, never heard of those kinds of tapes. Im at somewhere between 5-10 TB myself. The cheapest storage units ive seen is about $90/month here so that would be a bit expensive, but there might be some smaller ones for item storage that i dont know about.

ah rotating the drives can is a smart solution, that could be an option.

ah good to know. hopefully will not need the recovery but if i do i would like to avoid paying thousands, because then the idea of spending money to save time in case of emergency doesnt really work anymore

My impressions is that such fireproof safes are only fireproof for so long?

i have been planning on getting on though so could perhaps store the original local copy there for additional safety. depends on the space tho

At $12/terabyte/month it seems pretty expensive for media collection (I mean: family photos are irreplaceable but generic video?)

It is the value of my time i am concerned about not the files themselves. But i can see that there are cheaper options

Other options are to use “glacier” tier S3 which is cheap to rent but ultra expensive to recover (but hopefully you won’t need that)

Ill check that out :)

Or just put a pi+HDD hidden somewhere at work/parents and copy to that

This could be an option but a little cumbersome to keep updated perhaps?

perfect, thanks a lot!!!