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http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/19/riaa-attack/
In an offense called “Operation Payback,” members of the Internet collective Anonymous have organized what seems to be anti anti-piracy movement. Dubbed by Torrent Freak as the ”protest of the future” the group has been pretty busy over the past 36 hours launching DDoS attacks on the MPAA, Indian anti-piracy site AiPlex Software and today both RIAA.com and RIAA.org. The attacks are apparently in retaliation for comments the CEO of Aiplex software made about his firm being hired by the film industry to take down The Pirate Bay.
The original call to arms below:
How fast you are in such a short time! Aiplex, the bastard hired gun that DDoS’d TPB (The Pirate Bay), is already down! Rejoice, /b/rothers, even if it was at the hands of a single anon that it was done, even if ahead of schedule. now we have our lasers primed, but what do we target now?
We target the bastard group that has thus far led this charge against our websites, like The Pirate Bay. We target MPAA.ORG! The IP is designated at “216.20.162.10″, and our firing time remains THE SAME. All details are just as before, but we have reaimed our crosshairs on this much larger target. We have the manpower, we have the botnets, it’s time we do to them what they keep doing to us.
REPEAT: AIPLEX IS ALREADY DOWN THANKS TO A SINGLE ANON. WE ARE MIGRATING TARGETS.
From the Anonymous media kit:
Operationayback is a *****.
DATE \September 19, 2010\
To whom it may concern,
This is to inform you that we, Anonymous, are organizing an Operation called “Payback is a *****”. Anonymous will be attacking the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America), and their hired gun AIPLEX for attacks against the popular torrent and file sharing site, the Piratebay (www.thepiratebay.org). We will prevent users to access said enemy sites and we will keep them down for as long as we can. But why, you ask? Anonymous is tired of corporate interests controlling the internet and silencing the people’s rights to spread information, but more importantly, the right to SHARE with one another.The RIAA and the MPAA feign to aid the artists and their cause; yet they do no such thing. In their eyes is not hope, only dollar signs. Anonymous will not stand this any longer.We wish you the best of luck.
Sincerely,
Anonymous,
We are legion.
Both RIAA sites currently offline (they went down 5 minutes before schedule), as people continue to mobilize through the 4Chan message boards and Twitter, using the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) DDoS tools to initiate independent attacks, and continuing to make what would seem unlikely for a group of people called Anonymous, celebratory tweets.
For all the “future of cyber protest” rhetoric, it remains to be seen how much effect a flood of traffic and a few hours of downtime will have on changing RIAA or MPAA piracy policy. After all, despite yesterday’s sustained attacks, the MPAA site is back up and running, snow owls and all.
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For the record, I am not participating, but I HATE the RIAA and MPAA and their antiquated rules.
Fight fire with fire. They DDoS torrent sites, we'll DDoS them back to hell.
yeah f(i mean i disagree with) da corporate world take over where they look at ppl as stupid bloodbags who work like slaves for slave money
restore humanities freedom like it once was at its pride !
this sounds funny on how easily can big sites can get flooded so easily.
thats what happens when big people get in freaky people's ways
lol
cheers
AP: One of world's largest file-sharing sites, http://Megaupload.com, shut down; company workers indicted
are you sure it's not another SOPA protest?
it'll be very controversial if true
then all the other file hosting sites are on target
and that means sources for new Anime releases will be limited.... Nooooooooooooo!
It would seem it's down for other reasons besides a SOPA protest.
@OP Do you have any links supporting your post? Other than MegaUpload having some DNS hijack issues back in November, there is nothing out there that supports your post.
i found it http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-file-sharing-website/
Feds shut down file-sharing website Megaupload.com
Published January 19, 2012
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McLEAN, Va. – Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.
The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.
Megaupload.com has claimed it is diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.
The indictment says at one point, Megaupload was the 13th most popular website in the world.
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more results from google https://www.google.com/search?q=Meg...GH4qTiQL2uty7CA&ved=0CFkQqAI&biw=1280&bih=970
Oh FOX news.... :cough:
I have my views about where they get their news from, and such views are not a democracy.
Edit: Didn't clue in that AP meant Associated Press, so it is credible.
From a quick perusal of teh interwebz, it is indeed down. Just coincidence that it's happened now, with all the SOPA stuff in everyone's head.
7 people connected to http://t.co/EzaQgqaF have been charged with online piracy crimes, WSJ reports. Story to come at http://t.co/1q2TkQ7W
This anti piracy crusade is out of control.
I Am Marino said:
This anti piracy crusade is out of control.
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It just seems like that because it's on everyone's mind. It's like when you drive a red escort. You see red escorts everywhere and think it's the most popular car on the road. It's not. You just notice it more because it's relevant to you.
Stuff like this happens quite a lot. It's nothing new, and for some (if not most) it's nothing other than a temporary glitch...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/1965...nocks_the_pirate_bay_offline_temporarily.html
I'm pretty sure MegaUpload is gone, and it hows the only need for SOPA and PIPA is so the rich guys can say what website they want shut down.
How is this? Official enough?
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html
What I love is the lack of technical understanding. Looks like the DOJ lawyers were led by the entertainment industry by taking advantage of their their raging lawyering libido.
Wonder if the case has any merit. Obviously SOPA doesn't need to be passed if the feds can shutter the 13th most popular web site in the world on piracy claims.
For all of you not believing this...here's another source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...egauploadcom/2012/01/19/gIQAJPIRBQ_story.html
and: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...05l2sA?docId=c93737704b504930a11fc307d67b674d
Yah, WTF? I hate copyright law. Totally out of control. Corporations run America and America thinks it runs the world. I mean seriously, arresting people in New Zeland and Japan?! Extraditing them like murderers to face criminal charges in the USA?!!
R.I.P MegaUpload you shall be missed dearly!
Another article: http://gizmodo.com/5877612/feds-kill-megaupload
If MU goes down, doesn't that mean all other "types" of sites will also go down? No more Filesonic, fileserve, hotfile, etc. Man that would suuuuucccckkkk!
fleadog99 said:
If MU goes down, doesn't that mean all other "types" of sites will also go down? No more Filesonic, fileserve, hotfile, etc. Man that would suuuuucccckkkk!
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That is exactly what media companies would like. Scorched earth, so long as they reduce (yes, not eliminate, just reduce) infringement. Which is incredible because copyrights should never have lasted this long in the first place.
The media companies are pirating from the public by getting Congress to perpetually extend copyrights.
Time for someone to write a global redundant distributed filesystem. Run a client on your computer and dedicate a few GB for the world's benefit.
haydonxda said:
That is exactly what media companies would like. Scorched earth, so long as they reduce (yes, not eliminate, just reduce) infringement. Which is incredible because copyrights should never have lasted this long in the first place.
The media companies are pirating from the public by getting Congress to perpetually extend copyrights.
Time for someone to write a global redundant distributed filesystem. Run a client on your computer and dedicate a few GB for the world's benefit.
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This is disingenuous. People aren't using these sites to download books from the 1930s. The vast majority of the material is movies, music and software from the past 5-10 years. The term of copyright is ridiculous, but has no application here.
The fact is, this site, and a few others, rewards people explicitly for hosting pirated content. I hope someone markets a better cyberlocker where legitimate content can be shared without having to be lumped in with the pirates.
Dammit those b*strds, so the owner of megaupload must have been doing fairly well, good life no debts, team working on the site pirated links being taken down, they're trying then one day 500 million dollars in debt , dammit, its not their fault and media producers are still minted
Max. (From my Galaxy 2)
Thread closed. There is already many threads about this. ~TRM
In case anyone is noticing that megaupload links aren't responding.
Megaupload finished: Feds shut down file-sharing giant without SOPA
MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested
Here's the actual indictment filed in an Alexandria, Virginia, US court;
Mega-Indictment
It doesn't look like the service will back anytime soon, so folks may want to consider utilizing other services for uploads, etc.
Good Luck..
Addendum:
Deleted the reference to SOPA/PIPA in my subject heading because this action has nothing to do with those laws. SOPA/PIPA are designed to implement measures so that "suspected" "piracy" sites can have their DNS entries blocked from US internet users which will frustrate efforts to access those sites, and to take away revenue by stopping credit card companies from doing business with them. IOW these are laws targeting the so-called "end users".
This action against Megaupload was a straight up site takedown and arrest of the founders, which was obviously coordinated with multiple law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. (At least the US and New Zealand were involved). This was action targeting the so-called "suppliers".
Having said that, if you're a US voter you should make sure you let your US Congress representatives know how you feel about SOPA/PIPA. Even if phase one of the web protests are over for now.
Horrible day for humanity....
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They charged people to see copyrighted content. screw them
messed up, 2012 will be a crazy year, millions of websites will get shutdown, with or without sopa =/
http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strike
Anonymous is striking back.
Wow
this getting out of hand.. The gov needs to chill out ... If we continue down this path we will end up like north Korea .. No offense btw
1984 g.o.
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What!?
I use icefilms to watch all mt TV and ice uses all MU links...
I had a 2 year sub for MU too...
Their download speeds were the best!
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messed up, 2012 will be a crazy year, millions of websites will get shutdown, with or without sopa =/
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Theyre really showing ppl how SOPA/PIPA can hurt him. If this is what they can do WITHOUT it, im afraid to think what kind of rampage theyll go on after.
Im glad there is nothing else wrong with the country, that the goverment has this kind of thing to focus on.
Wow is all i can say.
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Im glad there is nothing else wrong with the country, that the goverment has this kind of thing to focus on.
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Correct!
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Edited OP.
Megaupload should be taken down
and this is a good example that the current laws in the book are good enough if they just enforce them. There is no need for SOPA/PIPA.
Megauploads business model asks for money to see others copyrighted content.
Torrent sites on the other hand dont make any money and are much more complicated legally yet those got taken down before Megaupload. Megaupload should of been the first.
And so began the WAR...
MU business model is unethical. As so many, many copy cats out there such as filesonic, 4shared. It's only matter of time before they get taken down. Megaupload is just an example.
jim93 said:
Megaupload should be taken down
and this is a good example that the current laws in the book are good enough if they just enforce them. There is no need for SOPA/PIPA.
Megauploads business model asks for money to see others copyrighted content.
Torrent sites on the other hand dont make any money and are much more complicated legally yet those got taken down before Megaupload. Megaupload should of been the first.
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Either you're ignorant or your just stupid. MU did not promote copyright material at all, it took down anything that was flagged as infringing. Many many people use MU, doctors sharing cancer cures. Scientists sharing data, teachers sharing work for data, the list goes on. They only charges for premium access which only gave you unlimited download speeds and no limits. With or without you could download copyright material.
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President Obama has taken a stance against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill that would allow the justice department to force Internet providers and search engines to block all sites accused of copyright infringement.
For now, it appears that President Obama has stalled the controversial legislation. Read the details according to Forbes.com:
“The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HR 3261was scheduled in Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama has stepped in and said he would not support the bill.
SOPA has been delayed, for now. The House has agreed to revisit the issue next month, but they now know the White House will veto any bill that’s not more narrowly focused.
Much to the chagrin of Hollywood, the Entertainment Software Association (which has been a backer of the bill from early on), and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved. The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.”
I foresee prohibition-style shakedowns and takedowns. This issue is going to explode as the two sides engage in strikes and counterstrikes, but I do hope cooler heads prevail.
All respect to other opinions voiced here, but megaupload facilitated a great deal of sketchy shenanigans and did not appear to police its site effectively enough. Of course, a task like that is gargantuan.
I wonder, though, if the g-men will also shut down YouTube and arrest its principals as well? I suspect there is more pirated intellectual property there than on most of the rest of the internet combined. What would make YouTube exempt, and would such an exemption be fair?
"Soup" or no soup, the coming months will prove historic in the life of the internet, an internet that will be forced to grow up beyond the walled garden of its adolescence and thence to play by the rules of the rest of society. You heard it here, folks: The age of internet innocence is over, and sopa/pipa are just early, clumsy practice shots as the media industry and legislators gauge public opinion before launching a more calculated assault.
This is why the retaliatory actions of Anonymous and others cause me great concern. I think they will turn public sentiment against the internet community, paint all opponents of sopa and pipa and similar bad legislation as wildeyed bandits, and thus embolden the powers that be to insist on draconian measures that will force the internet to mature too quickly, severely undermining its usefulness in the process.
President Obama has taken a stance against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill that would allow the justice department to force Internet providers and search engines to block all sites accused of copyright infringement.
For now, it appears that President Obama has stalled the controversial legislation. Read the details according to Forbes.com:
“The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House Judiciary Committee hearing on HR 3261was scheduled in Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama has stepped in and said he would not support the bill.
SOPA has been delayed, for now. The House has agreed to revisit the issue next month, but they now know the White House will veto any bill that’s not more narrowly focused.
Much to the chagrin of Hollywood, the Entertainment Software Association (which has been a backer of the bill from early on), and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved. The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.”
Go Obama!!!
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inb4 political debate
I @#$%ing love that man.
Awesome
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the first good thing Obama has done..to bad it wasn't because he doesn't support bill but the fact that people are disgusted and are protesting. if Washington thinks that we cannot overcome this...wow are they in for the fight of their lives...
you saw one day of half ass protest..
id like to see a day of devoted protest and there would be a change..
don't rent or goto a movie, don't purchase one company's stuff, boycott till they're on our side once again..
people once gave these powers...and we as one can take these powers away.
but we have to come together united....
sounds like a political stunt to me..
he quietly sign a part of ndaa where he can detain anyone in USA without anything.. he sent more troops to war instead of bringing them back..why the hell would he care about internet freedom? coincidentally election is this year..
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Now, how is he going to explain his stance to his biggest campaign sponsors aka the Hollywood. lol
Azn has it right. Obama is a politician in an election year. If you !&#@%! love that man, you are drinking kool-aid. How could he continue to support a bill that not even the few left in his base don't even support? This president is a self-serving asshole. The last president was a self-serving asshole. The next president will be a self-serving asshole.
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the first good thing Obama has done..to bad it wasn't because he doesn't support bill but the fact that people are disgusted and are protesting. if Washington thinks that we cannot overcome this...wow are they in for the fight of their lives...
you saw one day of half ass protest..
id like to see a day of devoted protest and there would be a change..
don't rent or goto a movie, don't purchase one company's stuff, boycott till they're on our side once again..
people once gave these powers...and we as one can take these powers away.
but we have to come together united....
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Actually the White House has been against this bill probably before you even heard of it. Alot of money has been invested in internet security by the government. I don't know how IT inclined you are, but the reality is this bill would put the government back to square one as far as internet security goes because it threatens DNS. So no, it wasn't "one day of a half ass protest" that caused the white house to take your side.
TJBunch1228 said:
This president is a self-serving asshole. The last president was a self-serving asshole. The next president will be a self-serving asshole.
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You're talking about politicians, don't you? First thing you have to learn if you wanna go big!
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Yea, but Megaupload has been shutdown. So if developers that had ROM builds and utils on that site, with links attached, may have to put their goods somewhere else and update their links on the posts here.
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Yea, but Megaupload has been shutdown. So if developers that had ROM builds and utils on that site, with links attached, may have to put their goods somewhere else and update their links on the posts here.
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That has nothing to do with this bill.
Its a shame but fairplay to anonymous group for making there distaste known...the fbi site was down today..universal music etc
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TJBunch1228 said:
Azn has it right. Obama is a politician in an election year. If you !&#@%! love that man, you are drinking kool-aid. How could he continue to support a bill that not even the few left in his base don't even support? This president is a self-serving asshole. The last president was a self-serving asshole. The next president will be a self-serving asshole.
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As much as it pains me i agree somewhat myself. Obama may be a puppet and social figure. Its amazing how many people don't even know about the NDAA. Now we have the Sopa and pipa getting all this publicity but no one is aware of the Enemy expatriation act that is presented as well, which invokes the right for Congress to strip us citizens from their rights making it easier for the president /military to indefinitely detain someone that "arbitrarily" has ties to terrorists.
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The President? pffft he would have signed it.
While I am against stealing of property, including music, movies, TV shows, Hollywood and it's supporters are flat out lying to the American people when they say piracy is hurting sales, the people that pirate it weren't going to buy it in the 1st place. And when you have movies like Avatar, ect making a billion dollars??
this is awesome! yet we all know its not over, which to me is somewhat worrisome... we still need to fight!
Doublea34 said:
this is awesome! yet we all know its not over, which to me is somewhat worrisome... we still need to fight!
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Agreed the bill will return in another form.
MHO the whole SOPA thing and americans' crackdown on piracy aint gonna stop it. Its up to the people themselves to decide whether they pirate or support. No matter how much effort or money the US or other governments waste on trying to stop piracy, its not going to stop. The online community has unlimited possibilites and there's always gonna be somebody that's gonna make a workaround, if you understand what i mean. All SOPA's gonna do is cause unnecessary inconvenience in the online world.
MegaUpload... hmm... i thought at first that it was a stupid move, I mean, there are loads of different file-hosting sites out there, why only take down MegaUpload? I mean sites like FileSonic and others that pay uploaders money for downloads are way more prone to illegitimate uses.
Alright so I read MegaUpload CEO's Kim Dotcom's bio, he does have quite an interesting history... A dual German and Finland citizen, holds permanent residency in both New Zealand and Hong Kong. He has multiple criminal records and has been charged more than twice or so for criminal offenses such as selling hacked telephone cards, credit card fraud, insider trading and embezzlement... in general, being a total smart arse:
WIKIPEDIA: In 2001, Schmitz (Kim) purchased $375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest EUR 50 million in the company. Unknown to others, Schmitz did not have the funds available to invest, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly 300%.Schmitz quickly sold the shares and profited $1.5 million as a result.
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In other words, he was a dirty business man with a bad reputation. I guess his criminal records would be the main reason why he was taken down first. I'm quite confident there are more coming.
As to how it affects me, it does a lot. I have quite a few files I need on MU... I don't have a premium account and would never buy one off them or anyone else, because I don't need it. I sure feel sorry for those who have a prem though...
^^ Again, this is my honest opinion.
Megaupload being taken down really sucks
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Megaupload being taken down really sucks
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Couldn't agree more!
Yeah, it really sucks. Let's hope other file sharing sites don't get the same fate. Rapidshare etc. Not as good as Mega though... Here's my latest post on facebook lol
"Megaupload taken down by the Federal Government. ****ing ridiculous. The company was not EVEN BASED in the US. Is the US government now policing the rest of the world. They got the New Zealand police to arrest the founders, and the company base is in Hong Kong. How can they bring people from another part of the world, not even US citizens, and have them arrested... just adds to the bull**** with SOPA and PIPA. We are going to have a censored internet just like North Korea. **** THE US GOVERNMENT. DAMN. They need to get their priorities straight. Giving people years of jailtime for downloading music or small crimes, yet when someone murders someone you might get a year or two if your lucky. Something I saw someone post, download a Michael Jackson song and get 5 years prison, be the Dr. killing him and you get 1-2. smh.."
The megaupload. Being taken down doesnt surprise me personally. Its like limewire, it was a really blatant piracy hub. There was legitimate business on the site but it was mostly a hotbed for stolen data.
There are plenty of other oprions. Rapidshare, filehippo, dropbox
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LordManhattan said:
Here you go: fake link removed
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Please stop posting that IP around. It's not real. The owners of the real MegaUpload have nothing to do with these "New MegaUpload" sites. Now for being stupid I hope you get a virus and have your bank account zeroed.
But seriously, do you really think they would put it back up right after it was closed? Someone just took a cached version to have the layout, put the text in there, and now they are thinking how to infect your computer and steal your money.
(yes, I am copy and pasting that whenever I see those numbers)
Yeah, just saw your reply in the other thread.
You should edit the quote out of your post
We don't need two MU threads....
Well, I don't anyway
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