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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • There’s a race within “the scene”. The first group to release the content (meeting all of the technical requirements, lest they get “nuked” or “propered”) gets credits, while everyone else gets nothing. The Wikipedia page on “Warez scene” is a good place to start if you want more technical details.

    That said, scene groups don’t release everything. Some shows just aren’t popular enough, or are unavailable to the various release groups. That’s where I think this show is. While scene releases don’t usually say their source, they do state the type, e.g. WEB (aka Web-DL). I suspect that the episodes get released on AMZN/DSNP/HULU/whatever at 5am ET, and that’s when a member of EDITH grabs it in 720p to release around 5:10. They might go back later to release the 1080p version, but it looks like in previous seasons they kept getting sniped.

    TL;DR: I bet the streaming content becomes available right before the scene release, which is why it’s so consistent.



  • “Scene” releases are always the fastest. They do not directly travel by torrent, although they are commonly uploaded to various trackers. You can watch one of the PreDB sites to see when one gets released (finding the content itself is up to you). Their native format is split RAR, but most trackers will have them unRAR’d.

    Private trackers tend to prefer P2P release groups. Common ones are NTb, FLUX, and especially on one tracker, Kitsune. These are always slower than scene, but advocates will say the quality is higher.

    Side note: it looks like recent episodes of that show were released by EDITH in 720p around 5am EDT. I don’t see any 1080p releases for this season. So either it’s only available in 720 or it’s not a very popular show.









  • The detail about hash values is really important. The FBI maintains a database of known CSAM. Presumably, hers is in that database, hence the hash values. While not everyone has access to that DB, Xitter/etc does. There is no ambiguity of anything on that list; there’s also no need for any human to review. It’s already been confirmed.

    While I’m not sure there’s any case law about it, I would be amazed if using that to train generative AI (except POSSIBLY as content to block) was treated as anything other than possession, distribution, and maybe even production of CSAM.

    Proving it might be difficult without full discovery, and AI is infamous for the massive corpus of training data. However, AI doesn’t always generate truly unique works. Go to any image generator and prompt for a video game plumber, and you’ll see an unmistakable image of Mario. It’s possible that they can find a prompt that generates results close enough to her images.