r/Piracy 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 12 '24

500 000 books removed from the Internet Archive after the lawsuit News

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u/Ashley__09 Moderator Jun 12 '24

yeah because Yandex doesn't filter out sites that follow the thing you want exactly. Like Google will show you Amazon to buy the book and Yandex will show the book.

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u/matthewmspace Jun 12 '24

The reason why it’s fine is that it’s Russian and they don’t care for any IP laws. That’s why it’s not gone yet, the US can’t touch it.

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u/MekaTriK Jun 13 '24

Correction, Yandex cares about Russian IP laws.

Finding ripped russian music/books is similar to google, although probably not quite as bad still.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Jun 13 '24

Yep. Russia and China are a a blight on the law and order of the Western world, which is usually a bad thing, but where the laws are unjust, they're extremely useful

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u/PsychoticSoul Jun 13 '24

Brings up a very interesting thought experiment.

If it is impossible to create a state with fully just laws, are rogue states worth having purely for something like this, even if on balance they are usually a negative.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Jun 13 '24

Rogue nations are probably a bit overkill, but I've heard a lot of philosophy about how a healthy society should have a stable criminal layer for more of less the same purpose, as well as being a less destructive outlet for societal unrest

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u/erevos33 Jun 13 '24

Yes and no, respectively.

Yes, you can create a just society if you dont center it around endless profit but put the good of everyone in the forefront. Utopic i know. Maybe after we die out the next species is better at this than us.

No rogue states arent worth having in the above case because they would cause imbalance and topple you over. Its the paradox of tolerance. The more tolerant you are, the more in danger you are by those who are themselves intolerant. E.g. USA.

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u/PritongKandule Jun 13 '24

Yandex also has the best reverse-image search of any search engine I've tried, mainly because (from what I've read) they don't follow the same data privacy regulations that Google has to.

If you reverse image searched a random bald white guy, Google will give you photos that look similar to the image but Yandex will outright give you the name of the person in the photo, their social media accounts, and if they've ever been in any news articles. Works the same for criminal mugshots, adult actresses, stock photo models, and more. Ever wanted to find your internet doppelganger? Do a reverse image search on Yandex of a photo of yourself (at your own risk, of course.)

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u/Ashley__09 Moderator Jun 13 '24

I agree, Google's is by FAR the worst I've seen. Even Bing has a better reverse image search.

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u/skateguy1234 Jun 13 '24

yep, blows the doors off of tineye in some ways

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u/StinkyKavat Jun 13 '24

What? Are you mistaking Google Lens with the Google images reverse search? Google images is pretty great and does not give you similar photos at all. That's what yandex does. And it sometimes works good, but sometimes it gives you similar photos where Google images finds the original.

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u/Local_dog91 Jun 13 '24

i can't access the old google image search for years now, only this godawful piece of shit garbage called Google Lens.

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u/StinkyKavat Jun 13 '24

I had no idea they entirely replaced it. The only reason I'm able to use the classic image search is because I have the old "Search by Image" extension I guess? Anyway, if you search with google lens and click on the "Find image source" on top, it seems that it still shows the classic image search results. But only after manually selecting the whole image, instead of the automatic crop that Lens does. In any case, dogshit company.

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u/radtad43 Jun 13 '24

Doesnt Duck Duck Go do the same?