How long until cloudflare gets blocked
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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why they gotta make the headline almost sound like they gon' ban anime, don't do us dirty man
Good luck, especially if they try to ban people from ripping their CDs to FLAC as well, like, how would you even find out if someone is doing that, for instance?
Unless you somehow force a backdoor into rippers like Exact Audio Copy, CUERipper, or Whipper, the latter two being OSS, you can't.
Even SCMS never phoned home to anyone simply because the capability to do that didn't exist yet when that copy protection scheme was first implemented, and it only applied to dubbing a CD over to DAT, MD, or DCC over S/PDIF on consumer gear.
And you still can't stop someone just playing it and recording the audio from outside of the VM.
fre:ac is an open source alternative to EAC and is actually way better, in my opinion.
Whipper is pretty much a text-based clone of EAC.
That sounds cool as hell. I might try it out but I don't see myself switching software. I love cli tools.
It's only on Linux though, for Windows, CUETools and CUERipper are some of the most powerful OSS tools for ripping CDs you can get.
I haven't used Windows in a couple of years. I use Arch btw.
Anyone offhandedly know how this would affect Usenet
Usenet is perfectly controllable for this kind of thing.
Also it's not intended for sharing binaries, that's bad behavior.
I can see something new, distributed (no servers), but with Usenet's feel and paradigm, being the pinnacle of piracy. But there is no such thing.
I imagine it's possible but it sounds like they're going after low hanging fruit like streaming sites and it also states that they can't prevent people from using VPNs to get around the blocking.