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Re: b9fx

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MarkMay 22, 2015

Hi Tony et al.

CAPTCHA etc will not help. I am not worried about robot spammers.

I am worried about sapient humans seeking downloads they disapprove of.

Turing tests are not relevant.

With my web host, downloads are not metered. Your host might think differently.

Downloads from the jar during the last "peak" period (when episodes were being broadcast during season 71) added up to 42GB (42,000 MB from 1,936 shows) in March 2015.

Offpeak downloads (when the show is not being broadcast) are about 400MB a month.

Setting up password protection of a download site is trivial. The problem is determining which applicant is an innocent marmalade lover, and which is a corporate copyright researcher.

How would you reliably detect an agent of the aunt?

I have found, in brief, that preventing unauthorised access to a download source is not possible.

Protecting the anonymity of the uploader/account holder (and being able to put the lid on the jar and and walk away) is the only option.

PS. If you reply via this group, PLEASE be discreet. For indiscreet posts, email me directly.

Posts to Yahoo Groups are NOT PRIVATE and can be searched by anyone with five brain cells and Google.

Do not blather on about the name of our favourite radio programme, my domains' names or the nickname of my site.

Preferably don't even mention the three-letter name of the aunt.

Sigh. I miss the days when this was just a harmless and helpful bunch of chums who appreciated a radio show.

Recently, it has become much less fun.

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- Use a proxy to disguise your IP address. I use privateinternetaccess.com. Costs about $35 a year, which is good value. (This is not a paid advertisement). Use their SOCKS5 proxy to disguise your IP address when downloading torrents; use their app to cloak your other internet traffic (e.g. to watch region-restricted youtube videos or iplayer shows, and hide your search history. You can select which country you appear to come from). Download speeds are not much affected by turning on the proxy.

- Apart from professional purposes, if you're still using your real name in forums (like this), stop it. Giving any identifiable personal info online is risky nowadays, even if you are totally harmless and innocent.

Mark

On Friday, May 22, 2015, Tony Baechler tony.baechler@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

Hello,

First, yes, alt tags are very useful to screen readers. They do read the
tags and at least I get a rough idea of what the picture is supposed to be
about. However, as Mark says, robots, search engines, etc can also read
those tags, effectively defeating the purpose. That is why I suggested
setting up a web-based authentication system with a form requiring the
solution to a basic word problem. The idea would be that a page listing the
available episodes would come up after the word problem is solved.

There are services out there which attempt to play audio codes for those who
can't see the image, but the problem is that the audio is so garbled that
it's hard to understand. I'll definitely give this a think and let the
group know if I come up with anything. Perhaps Mark is right that the best
thing to do is contribute a small amount of money for a storage account.
Amazon S3 comes to mind, but that has its own access issues. I could
possibly host them if all else fails, but I worry about the bandwidth and
legal issues. There would still be a login system of some sort, such as a
private ftp account.

Mark, out of curiosity, how much bandwidth does the jar use per month?

On 5/21/2015 6:48 AM, 'Paul' groups@... [just-a-minute] wrote:
> Tony,
>
> I don't and have never used a screen reader programme, so please forgive this question if it is ignorant in any way. I do write a blog and include images in almost every post I upload and include alt tags and descriptive text in the meta tags for the images. Would this kind of info help with this kind of problem for your screen reader programme?
>
> Again apologies for "teaching granny to suck eggs" type question
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: just-a-minute@... [mailto:just-a-minute@...]
> Sent: 21 May 2015 08:27
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] b9fx
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by simplifying the process, but if you mean having someone look at a picture, I am rather disappointed. I am totally blind and that is rather impossible for some of us such as myself. I apologise if I am mistaken here, but based on another post commenting about saving the picture, I'm assuming that's the case. I would ask you to reconsider this and find a better solution. I am really tired of the prevailing attitude nowadays that all people can see, therefore anyone can see the picture, therefore make them look at a picture to get access. The really stupid thing is that any good OCR program can defeat this anyway. I know because I've had to use such software on a number of sites with the same stupid, non-inclusive thinking.
>
> On 5/20/2015 6:25 AM, Mark sirnylon@... [just-a-minute] wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all. The myBB software running b9fx.com <http://b9fx.com> has had a
>> fatal brain fart and has generated 400 error messages (so far) today.
>>
>> I've decided to dramatically simplify the dissemination of Jam Jar
>> login credentials on the site. I hope it will still serve the
>> community without impeding the discreet spreading of the JAM.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mark
>
> --
> Have a good day,
> Tony Baechler
> mailto:tony.baechler@...
>

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