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  1. as the vast majority of my own video and audio content is paid for and/or downloaded under licence, but I wouldn't believe for a moment the industry's figure of $50m. They are notorious for cooking up figures like this. If we assume retail value of 99c per song and $15 per movie, that's either 50 million songs or 3.3 million movies, or some combination thereof... which frankly, even if Dhaliwal was an inveterate collector of pirated content, beggers belief. I don't doubt that they are talking about the amount of money that they think they could recover at trial inclusive of the maximum statutory damages award, which would be $25,000 per item. In that light, it scales back to 2,000 songs or movies... probably less than an iPod's worth. Sure, it's still copyright infringement, but I'm just saying... don't take what the industry says at face value.
  2. As a side note, if you know how to connect to the Tor network, you can of course just go to http://wdnqg3ehh3hvalpe.onion/ instead. The reason why it is hosted on Tor is so that Sony cannot issue a DMCA notice or similar to take it off-line. (Actually they couldn't anyway, because it's not hosted in the USA, but Tor makes it even harder for them.) If anyone else wants to mirror the files then of course you can (or better yet, compile your own and host those), but be aware of the legal risks. In an ideal world, sacd-ripper would be perfectly legal, because its dominant purpose is not piracy but legal format-shifting (which is fair use in the USA, and explicitly lawful in other countries like Australia). However because unlike the music on a CD, the music on an SACD is encrypted, bypassing that encryption even for fair use purposes is illegal in a small number of countries that have implemented the anti-circumvention provisions of the WIPO Copyright Treaty in a particularly broad and unjust way, as the USA has through its DMCA. Even in the USA it may still not be illegal to post the binary itself, because using sacd-ripper is useless without a copy of the PS3 root keys (which, however, are also hosted on the site above). Only in combination do the two constitute a copyright circumvention device under the DMCA. But from an abundance of caution, I would recommend that if mirroring these files only in a country where it is legal to do so.
  3. If you don't want to go to the trouble of compiling your own, here are binary packages of sacd-ripper: https://wdnqg3ehh3hvalpe.tor2web.org/
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