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As a TV broadcaster, Sky has an exceptional view of the legal subscription TV market and how the illegal IPTV market encroaches on that.

As an ISP that supplies 20% of the market, Sky’s view of its own customers using Sky Broadband to pirate Sky’s pay TV content is a persistent irritant that comes with the territory.

Sky’s involvement in ISP blocking orders has traditionally meant complying with injunctions obtained by groups including the MPA and RIAA. Along with its main ISP rivals including market leader BT (28%), roughly on-par competitor Virgin Media (20%), and TalkTalk (12.5%), over the years Sky has blocked thousands of domains to protect content owned by others.

Sky Tests Blocking to Protect Its Own Content

In the summer of 2023, Sky obtained a blocking injunction at the High Court to protect content it broadcasts on its own TV channels. Sky’s targets included BunnyStream, Enigma Streams, GenIPTV, CatIPTV, GoTVMix, and IPTVMain, none of which warmed to the idea of being blocked. Sky’s blocking measures faced pirate countermeasures, most visibly through the use of endless subdomains generated at will, which Sky also went on to block on an unprecedented scale, with a predictable response each time.

On November 12, 2024, Sky obtained an extension to its original order, the second since the summer of 2023. With BT, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media listed once again, there was no change among the respondents. The list of targets, which includes static promotional/sales websites and underlying pirate IPTV services, reads as follows:

BunnyStream; CatIPTV; EnigmaStreams; GenIPTV; GoTVMix; IPTVMAIN; FastIP.tv; IP-TV.uk; IPTV-King.co.uk; IPTVSubscribe.uk; IPTV-UK.digital; KemoIPTV.tv; UKChannels.co.uk; UKIPTVMedia.co; TheSkyIPTV.shop; and Calmahub.live

All of Sky’s initial targets appear to have survived unprecedented levels of ISP blocking so are now appearing once again. Why that’s the case isn’t mentioned in the High Court order, and the same applies to other confidential aspects of the case to prevent circumvention. Fortunately, not everything is shrouded in darkness.

Dynamic and Static Blocking

The order allows Sky to conduct Dynamic Blocking of IP addresses associated with the IPTV platforms’ servers. Once Sky becomes aware of a server it needs to block, IP address information can be sent to the respondent ISPs for blocking in real-time.

Blocking takes place during specific Blocking Windows based on detection of unauthorized broadcasts of Sky Channels (table below), or various conditions listed in a confidential schedule.

The IP addresses are unblocked at the conclusion of each Blocking Window, the durations of which are confidential.

Non-Exclusive List of ‘Trigger’ Channels

Under the order, Static Blocking of URLs and Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) associated with the IPTV services’ websites is permanent.

Sky is authorized to detect and instantly notify the ISPs of IP addresses for Dynamic Blocking and URLs/FQDNs for Static Blocking if certain conditions are met. They include use of an IP address to broadcast public linear audiovisual footage of any Sky Channel during an unspecified Monitoring Period, or use that meets one or more detection conditions specified in a confidential schedule.

The order allows Sky to notify the ISPs of any URL or FQDN for Static Blocking if its “sole or predominant purpose is to enable or facilitate access to a Target Website.” Due to the confidentiality aspects of this and previous orders, specific examples aren’t provided.

However, this could be a measure to limit the usefulness of generating thousands of new subdomains to circumvent blocking. Previously the IPTV providers appeared to utilize wildcard certificates to generate FQDNs such as those shown below.

It may have been the case that if infringing activity only ever took place on subdomains, only those subdomains could be legally blocked. With an infinite supply of subdomains available at zero cost, generating more subdomains wasn’t a problem.

Here, however, a main domain would qualify as having the “sole or predominant purpose” of facilitating access to a pirate service. That means domains and subdomains could be blocked permanently, forcing the purchase of a whole new domain that when deployed would ultimately fare no better.

IP Blocking, URL Blocking, DNS Blocking, Deep Packet Inspection

Each ISP is required to implement blocking based on the type requested and the availability of existing specialist tools.

British Telecommunications (BT)

The section of the order detailing how blocking should be carried out is more complicated than one might expect, largely due to the unique position of British Telecommunications Plc and companies operating within the BT Group. These include the ISP most people know as BT, telecoms brand EE, and the ISP Plusnet, both of which are listed as separate respondents in the blocking order.

BT Group subsidiary Openreach Limited operates the Openreach digital network through which the ISP BT supplies internet connectivity to customers. The Openreach network is also used by over 680 other companies selling broadband and telecoms services, including Plusnet and EE. The blocking order lacks clarity, but it appears that BT’s residential-type customers are handled using BT’s Cleanfeed filtering/blocking system, while ‘wholesale’ customers have access to a lesser-known BT blocking/filtering system called RedCard.

When Dynamic Blocking is required by the order, ISP BT must block by IP address. Customers to which the RedCard system applies must also block by IP address. When applying Static Blocking, BT must apply Cleanfeed for customers using its fixed-line and mobile networks, using technical means including;

● IP address blocking and IP address re-routing at the core network level
● Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) based blocking utilizing at least summary analysis
● DNS blocking for customers using BT’s own DNS servers.

EE Limited

When applying Dynamic Blocking, EE must use IP address blocking for customers on their fixed line network (EE Home line) and mobile network, including hosted Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). This applies to customers using RedCard or any equivalent system EE may choose to deploy.

For Static Blocking, EE must use Cleanfeed for fixed line and mobile network customers (including MVNOs). Technical means include;

● IP address blocking and IP address re-routing for every address reported by Sky
● Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) based blocking utilizing at least summary analysis
● DNS blocking for customers using EE’s own DNS servers.

Plusnet

When applying Dynamic Blocking, Plusnet must use IP address blocking for customers to which RedCard applies.

When applying Static Blocking for customers to which Cleanfeed applies, the technical means include:

● IP address blocking and IP address re-routing for every address reported by Sky
● Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) based blocking utilizing at least summary analysis
● DNS blocking for customers using Plusnet’s own DNS servers.

TalkTalk

The instructions for TalkTalk make no references to static or dynamic blocking. The order instead mentions StreamShield, a blocking/filtering system operated by TalkTalk since ~2006. When StreamShield is applied the technical means is URL blocking for each and every URL notified by Sky. When ‘blackholing’ is applied, the technical means is IP address blocking for each IP address notified by Sky.

TalkTalk appears to be the only ISP where blocking measures are limited by volume. For all UK blocking orders that require TalkTalk to implement blocking, a limit of 10,000 simultaneous IP addresses applies.

Virgin Media, Sky, Google

Instructions for Virgin Media do not refer to static or dynamic blocking. The order instead mentions Web Blocker 3, a blocking/filtering system operated by Virgin. When Web Blocker 3 or blackholing is applied, the technical means is IP address blocking.

Sky is the applicant in this process, not a respondent, but appears to have volunteered for blocking duties on its own behalf. Sky will use its own Hawkeye system to carry out IP address blocking.

Google also receives no mention in the court order but TorrentFreak can confirm that the company is voluntarily removing IPTV providers’ domains from search results. That has already had the effect of ‘promoting’ sites publishing reviews of the IPTV providers’ services into the top slots, and will probably lead to scammers exploiting the vacuum to rip off unsuspecting consumers.

In general terms, however, this enhanced blocking order will make life more complex for providers. End users already using VPNs to access these services, on the other hand, will most likely remain completely unaffected.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Начинают почему-то с коров...

1. С какого глузда борцы с потеплением доёбываются до самых разных отраслей промышленности, которые совокупно отвечают за считанные проценты выброса парниковых газов в атмосферу? Поборитесь сначала с коровьим пердежом.  
2. Скоро ли нам, людям заменят унитазы на плазменные распылители говна и будут ли нам трансплантировать фекалии кенгуру? И если да, хватит ли на все восемь миллиардов землян имеющейся популяции кенгуру; не начать ли селекцию видов, производящих побольше фекалий для трансплантации?

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Почему не сбили ракету хусят?

מכתש בגן שעשועים: זירת הנפילה במרכז. pic.twitter.com/kn4gZmWaf2

— אור רביד | Or Ravid (@OrRavid) December 21, 2024

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Оригинал взят у veniamin1
в
Лесина рыготные стихи для базарной Маньки неплохи..

Лесина рыготные стихи
Для базарной Маньки неплохи.
Любит он мандёшку отсосать
И стихи залупой создавать





Подражание Народному псевдопииту Тифаретника Лесину Евгению:

Он бутылку открывает,
"Без похмелки я умру!"
Стаканюру наливает
Женя Лесин поутру.

"Мне совсем не нужно сала
Не хохлы мы с вами тут,
На Руси икры немало
И селёдочку жуют."

Он пиздит и в ус не дуя
Сам милуется собой:
"Лесин Женька, Аллилуя,
Хуй не малый, а большой!"

Именуется поэтом
Почему-то он всегда,
Любит водочку при этом
Как залупу та пизда!




Лесин голосует всем его народным творчеством
за бешенство антисемита Вербицкого и вечно грязной
манды с прицепом Фридман, Хуяки-Люляки.

Вениамин

Tags: Антисемит, ЛЖРнов3, Лесин, Мои стихи, Отсосун-Патриот, Пародия, Стихи

Симка мамашка, засосав бутылку портюши
777, народила Мишку, отсосав самую грязную
залупу первого в мире государства трудящихся.



Ссылки на посты подонков:
https://lj.rossia.org/users/siblington/75735.html
https://lj.rossia.org/users/kot_afromeeva/

Вербицкий создал бешеную антисемитскую блогоплатформу. БЕШЕНУЮ. Такие же подонки как и он, его соавторы, Шкабарнюк, граф
Мудюк ибн его Каледин, и парижская потаскуха Катька Америк, с удовольствием молчат. Им подходит этот наци-антисемитский
сайт.

Сегодня, в третий раз за восемь месяцев,
обстреляли еврейскую школу для девочек в Торонто.

ШКОЛУ. ДЛЯ ДЕВОЧЕК. ТРЕТИЙ РАЗ. ЗА ВОСЕМЬ МЕСЯЦЕВ.

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There are plenty of options for copyright holders to frustrate pirate site operations, but attacking their domain names is particularly effective.

In recent years, various entertainment industry groups have called on the domain name industry to help out on this front.

The MPA previously signed landmark agreements with registries, enabling the movie industry group to act as a “trusted notifier” of “pirate” domains. Other players in the domain name market have been more reserved.

EU and NL Registries Tackle Pirate Domains

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), for example, which oversees the .org gTLD, previously denied requests to take action against The Pirate Bay. According to PIR, caution is advised to ensure a “free, open, safe and secure internet”.

In recent years, rightsholder pressure hasn’t abated. Domain name registries that fail to take action are now listed as “notorious piracy markets” themselves, as recent reports against the .cc, .io, and .tv domain extensions have shown.

Politics also play a part. For example, U.S. lawmakers previously asked domain name registry VeriSign, known for managing the .com domain, to help tackle online piracy.

EU and NL Registries Tackle Pirate Domains

Despite these developments, there’s little public discussion about new agreements between domain registries and rightsholders. Given the sensitivities involved, not all collaboration needs a spotlight.

This week, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN reported that it had booked new success with its previously unknown ‘registry strategy‘.

Following a notice from BREIN, the SIDN (.nl) and EURid (.eu) registries took several pirate site domains offline. SIDN’s actions targeted IPTV-related domains, such as streamdeal.nl, iptvproviders.nl, omniptv.nl and iptvstreamplus.nl.

EURid reportedly removed seven domain names after BREIN reached out. These domains, which were used to provide access to pirated films, music, books and games, were registered though domain proxy services that shield the identity of the owners.

The .eu domain names are not publicized as those sites use alternative gTLDs that remain active. Mentioning these domains in public could therefore serve as an unwanted advertisement.

Reporting Illegal Content?

BREIN says that these registries take responsibility by helping to shut down illegal activity. On what grounds these companies take action isn’t immediately clear.

“Pirates like to use trustworthy top-level domains such as .nl and .eu for their illegal websites. The organizations responsible for this, SIDN and EURid, know this and take their responsibility by helping to combat illegality,” BREIN writes.

The anti-piracy group goes on to mention that pirate IPTV services infringe copyrights. That violates the terms and conditions of the domain registries, so they can be terminated on these grounds. But were they?

TorrentFreak reached out to both SIDN and EURid, requesting more information and both registries say that the domain name terminations referenced by BREIN were not copyright related.

Inaccurate WHOIS Information

SIDN spokesperson Marnie van Duijnhoven explains that the domain name registrations were canceled, because the owners didn’t provide or confirm the correct WHOIS registration data.

“This is a standard procedure at SIDN that we apply if there is reason to doubt the correctness of the registrant’s data. The reason may be a report from a third party such as Stichting Brein, but also, for example, the Police,” Van Duijnhoven says.

While these verification procedures were initiated in response to BREIN’s notifications, the decision to cancel the domain names was not directly related to the content on the sites. Instead, the cancellations were made under Articles 16 and 18 of SIDN’s terms and conditions, which cover inaccurate WHOIS information

EURid spokesperson Reelika Kirna confirmed that inaccurate registrant data also triggered their response. This is a terms of service violation, but not one related to copyright.

“Following the request from BREIN regarding seven .eu domain names, we carried out our standard procedure for registration data validation and subsequently suspended these domain names due to a breach of Articles 3(b) and 4(d) and (e) of our Terms and Conditions,” Kirna informed us.

Roads to Rome

BREIN’s director Bastiaan van Ramshorst informs us that SIDN and EURid are indeed correct. In these instances, copyright wasn’t the reason to report the domains, at least on paper.

The anti-piracy group previously reported domains to SIDN on the basis of copyright infringement. These complaints are handled under the separate notice and takedown procedure. That wasn’t the case here, but the aim is the same.

“BREIN’s goal is the same: to take the domain offline because copyright and related rights are being violated on a large scale. The grounds on which SIDN takes action does not matter to us.”

“Both roads lead to Rome. Obviously illegal websites almost always have incorrect WHOIS data because infringers want to remain anonymous. BREIN can and does use both grounds,” Van Ramshorst adds.

Whether any of these roads is easier than the other is unknown, but SIDN’s latest transparency report shows that notice and takedown (NTD) reports are rare. The registry received 39 NTD requests in the first three quarters of the year.

During the same period, SIDN launched over 5,000 procedures under article 16 and 18 of its terms and conditions, which includes claims concerning inaccurate WHOIS information.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Сеанс хайпожорства

mi3ch

❝Конечно, Библия набита древними глупостями под завязку — она полностью соответствует архаичным представлениям о мире людей того времени. В ней сказано, что растения были созданы раньше звезд, что сначала было создано Солнце, а потом появилось разделение дня и ночи, что небо твердое, а дождь идет потому, что в этой тверди разверзлись хляби небесные, что число Пи равно трем, что все животные мира могут погрузиться в один ковчег. Что Луна является таким же светилом, как и Солнце, только поменьше, что мужчина создан из земли, а женщина — из его ребра. В Библии ни разу не упоминается мозг — считается, что его функции выполняет сердце. Этот список можно продолжать очень долго.❞

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Rational Tim R. observed "When setting up my security camera using the ieGeek app there seem to be two conflicting definitions of sensitivity. I hope the second one is wrong, but if it's right, I really hope the first one is wrong."

"That's what happens when you use a LLM to write your date handling code!" crowed an anonymous Errordian. "Actually, it is interesting that they store dates as days since the beginning of the current Julian period."

Sarcastic Michael P. grumped "Oh, shoot. I hope I can find time to charge my doorbell before it dies. I guess Google Home takes a much longer view of time than us mere humans."

"Hello To You Too!" cheered Simon T. when he happened on this friendly welcome. Not really. What he really said was "We all love a hello world, but probably not on almost the front page of a national system." Maybe, maybe not.

Mathematician Mark V. figures Firefox's math doesn't add up. "Apparently my browser has cached 17 Exabytes of data from YouTube - on my 512GB laptop. That's some serious video compression!" Technically, it depends on the lighting.

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For those who enjoy reading professional reports filled with statistics and detailed analysis, the piracy landscape has an endless supply.

Many reports are highly informative and, regardless of underlying political aims, few get things completely wrong.

Yet, even the most detailed studies and elaborate industry reports can at times leave the reader feeling puzzled. On the one hand, multi-billion dollar companies have more piracy data and intelligence than anyone else, period. On the other, nobody needs a meteorologist’s report to determine whether it’s raining outside.

In no other area is this more evident than in the promotion of reportedly effective site-blocking measures; and in no other country has site-blocking been adopted so comprehensively than in Italy. Bur even with very few guardrails and direct access to every tool available, the last year has seen tens of thousands of IP addresses and domains blocked by rightsholders, despite an obvious decline in the availability of pirated content.

Targeting The Source

By definition, site-blocking doesn’t remove pirated content from the internet. That’s why removing suppliers from the ecosystem is seen as a much better response than putting up endless, easily circumvented roadblocks. Late November, an investigation led by the Italians came to fruition with an enforcement operation billed as the largest to ever target a pirate IPTV network.

Operation Takendown reportedly took place on November 26/27 and according to authorities in Italy and several other countries in Europe, it “dismantled” an international pirate IPTV network serving 22 million users and generating an estimated €3 billion per year. At least 11 suspects were detained and around 100 others were said to be under investigation. Meanwhile, there were reports of subscribers all over Europe losing access to channels and in some cases their entire service.

At the time, this certainly sounded like a very big deal. Law enforcement seized 29 servers, 270 pieces of IPTV equipment, searched 112 private homes, identified close to 600 IPTV subscription resellers, and seized EUR 1.6 million in cryptocurrency plus EUR 40,000 in cash. Since the pirate IPTV provider in question was seen as a significant threat to the Italian live sports and broadcasting sectors, its reported demise was enthusiastically celebrated in the media.

Eliminating such a massive supplier should in theory restrict availability of illegal streams in Italy, even if only temporarily. After all, that was the entire point of the operation. By extension then, demand for ISP blocking in Italy should be reduced too, even if only for a short time.

Three Weeks Before, Three Weeks After

While keeping an open mind, we expected a sizeable albeit temporary dip in blocking tickets filed at Piracy Shield, followed by a relatively short recovery as the pirate IPTV market repaired itself and everything returned to normal.

Using Piracy Shield blocking data unofficially made available at piracyshield.iperv.it, we took the raid dates of November 26/27 as the central point. From there we examined every blocking ticket filed by rightsholders in the three weeks preceding Operation Takendown, and for comparison every ticket filed in the three weeks after.

A typical Piracy Shield ticket (credit: piracyshield.iperv.it)

During that six-week period, rightsholders filed around 186 Piracy Shield tickets similar to the one above, containing instructions for local ISPs to block a total of 527 IP addresses and 3,322 fully qualified domain names.

The chart below shows domain name blocking in blue, IP address blocking in red, and the approximate dates of the operation in green in the center.

click to enlarge

The data reveals that in the three-week period leading up to the enforcement action, rightsholders’ tickets required ISPs to block 204 IP addresses after they were observed providing access to pirate IPTV.

In the three weeks following the claimed “dismantling” of the 22 million-user service, rightsholders’ tickets required ISPs to block 323 IP addresses, up 50%+ on the preceding three weeks.

In respect of domain name blocking, the 1,322 FQDNs requested in the three weeks before the takedown, were easily eclipsed by 2,000 domains listed for blocking in the three-week period afterward.

Apparently, there were still plenty of piracy threats. And indeed, reports from a number of sources indicate that subscribers who lost service around November 26/27 had their channels restored within 48/72 hours.

Meanwhile, tickets like the one below are being filed almost daily and on some days, several at a time. It’s a perpetual workload that somehow seems to increase when massive providers get shut down or ‘dismantled’.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Michael had a co-worker who was new to the team. As such, there was definitely an expected ramp-up time. But this new developer got that ramp up time, and still wasn't performing. Worse, they ended up dragging down the entire team, as they'd go off, write a bunch of code, end up in a situation that they couldn't understand why nothing was working, and then beg for help.

For example, this dev was tasked with adding timestamps to a set of logging messages. The logs had started as simple "print" debugging messages, but had grown in complexity and it was time to treat them like real logging.

This stumped them, as the following C# code only ever printed out a zero:

DateTime d = new DateTime();
int timestamp = d.Minute + d.Second + d.Millisecond;
Console.WriteLine(timestamp + message);

On one hand, this is a clear example of not understanding operator overloading- clearly, they understood that + could be used for string concatenation, but they seem to have forgotten that it could also be used for arithmetic.

I don't think this actually only ever printed out a zero. It certainly didn't print out a timestamp, but it also didn't print out a zero. So not only is the code bad, but the understanding of how it's bad is also bad. It's bad. Bad. Bad.

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In the fall of 2002, Suprnova.org launched as one of the first sites dedicated to sharing ‘torrents’.

At the time, Napster has just shut down, leaving a void in the file-sharing landscape. A Slovenian teenager named Andrej Preston has just discovered the new BitTorrent protocol at the time and decided to embrace it.

Andrej, commonly known under the nickname ‘Sloncek’, started Suprnova out of personal interest, as he couldn’t watch some TV-shows in his home country. Like many of these early hobby projects, it started as a very primitive setup, hosted on a Linux box at Peston’s home.

In the weeks that followed, word of the “Universal BitTorrent Source” spread like wildfire, maxing out the meager 16kb/s upload capacity of the residential internet connection. Faced with this explosive growth, Suprnova was moved to an external hosting company, with many mirror sites later helping to distribute the traffic.

December 19, 2004: Suprnova.org Shuts Down

In record time, Suprnova became one of the most visited websites on the Internet. It became the go-to site for pirates who had discovered the unlimited sharing capacity of BitTorrent and the community that came with it. It also served as inspiration for other torrent sites that launched later, The Pirate Bay included.

Just as quickly as it rose to stardom, exactly twenty years ago today on December 19, 2004, Suprnova went dark. Initially, not much was known about the circumstances, but Andrej later said that he pulled the plug after he started reading about himself in the newspapers. Something didn’t feel right.

In hindsight, this was likely a pivotal decision. A month after the shutdown, police raided Andrej’s home, taking equipment and media as part of a criminal investigation. The case was closed in October 2005, but it’s not hard to see how things may have ended differently if the site had been active.

Not all decisions made at the time were great. Following the demise of Suprnova, Andrej became the spokesperson for the ambitious file-sharing software startup eXeem, which failed miserably. The same can be said for the relaunch of Suprnova in 2009 by The Pirate Bay, which Andrej wasn’t actively involved in. That never really took off.

Academy of Art University

Instead of focusing on new file-sharing ventures, Andrej explored his creative side. He dreamed of being in the film and TV business and wanted to study in the United States, close to LA. Eventually, he was admitted to Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Ironically, the funds he earned from Suprnova helped him pursue this dream, but the money eventually dried up and Andrej worked as a Resident Assistant to get free room and board. Together with funds scraped together by his parents, he made it though school.

During this time, Andrej also gained experience at an online video production company, working for free. He was also the driving power and creative mind behind TorrentFreak TV, which offered more room to improve his skills between 2008 and 2010. While that project stopped after two seasons, the passion for online video certainly wasn’t over.

A YouTube Star…

Today, Andrej is the owner of “The Infographics Show” a YouTube channel with more than 14 million subscribers. The first videos were posted on Suprnova’s video portal back in 2011. There are still traces of Suprnova.org on YouTube today, as the channel’s oldest videos display its logo in their intro.

With more than a decade of YouTube experience, six billion video views, and a team that consists of nearly 200 people, Suprnova’s founder has come a long way. But what was this journey like? About time to hear his thoughts again, twenty years after he pulled the plug.

We typically don’t post interviews in full, but we gladly make an exception here for what is a truly authentic story, with remarkable depth and detail tracing back to the early days of torrents. In addition, it offers a unique perspective on copyright, online entertainment, and life in general.

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TF: Looking back 20 years, what’s your overriding feeling about Suprnova.org? Pride, regret, something else?

Andrej: Honestly I feel like I’ve lived quite a few lives. Do I look at it with a particular feeling? It’s kind of hard to put into words. I’d say for most of my adult life, I saw it as just something that happened. It’s the only life I know.

But overall, in short, yeah, I am proud. I am proud of the project and who it made me today. I also feel so lucky for the life long friends I made because of it.

TF: The profits generated though Suprnova allowed you to study in the United States. Why did you choose the Academy of Arts in San Francisco? How did that go?

Andrej: I used all the money I made to put myself through school. I loved film & tv and I felt that, the only way to do it at the scale I dreamt of, required me move to the states. But I was never a great student.

I also ran out of money to continue paying for my school and had to have my parents take out a loan against their property they lived in and I grew up in. Having to study and my homework be something I was so passionate about made it really easy to get good grades. It was the first time in my life that I felt school came easy.

TF: After handing over the Suprnova.org domain to The Pirate Bay briefly, you later regained control. In 2011 you relaunched is as a video portal, briefly showing TorrentFreak TV episodes and a new project called the “Infographics Show”. Where did the idea for the Infographics Show come from?

Andrej: I realized that I really loved everything internet and as much as I felt hurt by being torn to pieces online by people for launching eXeem – which was also a financial debacle – I needed to embrace what I really loved.

I was also a huge fan of statistics, data and visual representations of them. I had an idea that if I just took a static infographic and made it animated people would for sure want to watch it, as that’s something I’d want to watch. The show has evolved a lot since then and is an ‘infographic’ only in its name.

TF: It’s been over a decade since you launched The Infographics Show on YouTube, which now has millions of subscribers. How do you look back on the past years? Any milestones you can share?

Andrej: The weird part about milestones is that the bigger they are, the less they mean. The Infographics Show now sits at around 14.7 million subscribers with over 6 billion views and over 5 thousand videos made.

The Infographics Show (2024)

I believe I made about 25 videos between 2011 and 2016 and had a few thousand subscribers. It was the video ‘North Korea vs United States – Who Would Win The War‘ that started getting some views after a year of publishing, that made me look at my YouTube channel again.

North Korea vs United States

There was also a comment by the best friend of my spouse who at the time expressed doubt about my earning potential by making a comment “but does the lightning really strike twice”, suggesting that I had luck with SuprNova and that was it. I felt like I had something to prove to myself at that point and decided to make a few more videos.

My biggest memorable milestone was when I made another video with a similar theme and it received 10,000 views in a day. That was the time I felt I can do this and I am on to something.

Of course the million subscribers milestone and then the 10 million were special (I made sure I invited the person who made the comment about having luck to my 10 million subscribers celebration, but they have no idea how their comment ever affected me or that I even knew about it).

The milestones are different now, there isn’t just The Infographics Show (even though that’s what people mostly know about). There are many other channels, including SCP Explained. It’s also not just me. The team is large, close to 200 people. I am lucky I get to work with my best friends and I am lucky to once again have my brother working with me.

And while a lot of people look at The Infographics Show and see that it’s generating smaller numbers than even a few years ago, the amount of watch time has never been higher.

Between all the channels, we’ve generated over 300 million watch time hours and, when putting that in perspective, that’s a lot more than a lot of my favorite TV shows that inspired me ever did. Yet of course it still feels like it’s not enough.

TF: Did any specific aspects of your experience with Suprnova influence your approach to creating and sharing content on The Infographics Show?

Andrej: I think SuprNova taught me at a very young age how to project manage and delegate. At the time I had no idea what I was learning but it made me the producer I am today. I also believed from the start that the way I’d like to make money is by making content available to everyone and I’ll make the money against the ads shown to them.

I believe there are so many ways to make money from popular content. Even views that aren’t directly monetized today can still contribute to revenue I make in the future. Whether that’s via the person watching more of my content but seeing ads, telling their friends about it, or maybe just showing the algorithm that it’s worth watching and spreading the reach.

TF: 20 years ago you were worrying about cease and desist letters from copyright holders. Today, you’re an established ‘creator’ yourself. Has this changed your outlook in any way?

Andrej: Ha, this is a funny one. I honestly have no real recollection of receiving cease and desist letters, maybe my brain just erased those memories. But I do often ask myself if I’m a hypocrite as I send a takedown notice.

Since my videos are already completely free on YouTube, I don’t think there is a reason for somebody to be uploading to the exact same platform where I already provide everything, and try to collect money from it. If people were putting my videos somewhere where I could not put them myself, and that was the only way for people to see them, I would have absolutely no problem with that.

TF: Suprnova existed in a different era. How do you view the current state of online entertainment and piracy, and what are your thoughts on how the industry can adapt?

Andrej: SuprNova existed because it needed to exist. This was a time that old school business models met new emerging technologies. The world needed to change and adapt to how people consume all sorts of media. If SuprNova didn’t exist, you would be talking with a different person right now but the questions would have been the same.

While it’s scary to think how it will affect my bottom line, I just have to accept that I was a part of technological revolution at some point and I can’t fight it. I have to see how I can adapt and embrace it and understand that nothing stays the same for long.

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TF: We want to thank Andrej for his openness and insight he provided over the years. Looking back at more than two decades of following the piracy scene, this is one of the stories that stands out most. We’ll check in again in another decade.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Баба моя, полное собрание МКБ (ну ладно, четверть, а не всё) таблетки горстями глотает. Недавно стала принимать какие-то новые – я не вникаю, что ей там прописывают, не объять необъятное, но нечаянно заметил на упаковке препарата Колофорт ФИО производителя – Материа Медика!

Дорогая, говорю, я ж про эту Матерную Медику не раз в тырнетах матюги читал, чё ж ты жрёшь эту супер-гомеопатию? Выкинь сичазже!

И шо ви таки думаете, что мне ответила эта к.б.н., ведущий разработчик ИФА-анализов и по жизни совсем не дура? 

«Ну вот еще, полторы тыщи выкидывать! Допринимаю, сколько прописано! 

С докторшей она по этому поводу всё же поскандалила и попросила меня для уменьшения вреда другим пациентам сочинить для нее заметочку. По-моему, здесь она будет вполне уместна.

Лично про Матерну медику см. тут и во многих других местах.

Погуглить дополнительную информацию можно по запросу «фуфломицин». 

А это – основная информация про фуфлопрепараты: 

Список неэффективных лекарств и Расстрельный список лекарств – второй намного длиннее, и тоже давно не обновляется, хоть автор и обещает. На всякий случай советую скопировать список – сайт может закрыться.

Среди прочего там есть (цитирую) 

«Колофорт – антитела к человеческому фактору некроза опухоли альфа (ФНОα) аффинно очищенные – 0.006 г, антитела к мозгоспецифическому белку S-100 аффинно очищенные – 0.006 г, антитела к гистамину аффинно очищенные – 0.006 г; наносятся на лактозу в виде смеси трех активных водно-спиртовых разведений субстанции, разведенной соответственно в 10012, 10030, 100200 раз. У гомеопатии не может быть доказательств эффективности. См. Тенотен, Анаферон, Артрофоон, Импаза, Ренгалин.»

В Пабмеде по запросу kolofort – 2 ссылки. Обе – англоабстракты из зачуханных русских журнальчиков., 1 (52 человека, без контроля) и 2 (здесь полный текст, т.к. абстракт совсем коротенький – обзор про разные фуфломицины с антителами к S-100). 

По запросу Колофорт клинические исследования Гугл выдаёт такое, что плакать хочется. Например, Оценка эффективности оригинального комплексного препарата… – «Обследовано 30 пациентов с функциональной диареей и диареей при синдроме раздраженной кишки в возрасте от 19 до 57 лет». Тоже, разумеется, без контроля.

Это сошло бы для БАДостей, но за такое обоснование эффективности лекарства авторов надо увольнять в дворники. Про разработчиков я смолчу из деликатности.

И на добавку – интерактивная инфографика на английском про БАДы (в хорошем смысле, по данным серьёзных исследований, где Кокран носа не подточит). Правда, последнее обновление – март 2017.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/snakeoil-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements/ (введение и как это понимать) 

и собственно инфографика http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/ 

Люди! Будьте бдливы (С)! А то ж у нас и вот такие врачи встречаются, и чаще, чем вы думаете. 

Сверяйте прописанные вам и вашим близким (или не прописанные, а выбранные своим или чужим умом) лекарства и БАДы с умными списками. Как минимум сбережете деньги и не будете выздоравливать за счёт эффекта плацебо.

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