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- <title>syslog-trusted-timestamp - chain of trusted timestamps for your syslog</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/syslog_trusted_timestamp___chain_of_trusted_timestamps_for_your_syslog.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Two years ago, I had
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html">a
-look at trusted timestamping options available</a>, and among
-other things noted a still open
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/742553">bug in the tsget script</a>
-included in openssl that made it harder than necessary to use openssl
-as a trusted timestamping client. A few days ago I was told
-<a href="https::/www.difi.no/">the Norwegian government office DIFI</a> is
-close to releasing their own trusted timestamp service, and in the
-process I was happy to learn about a replacement for the tsget script
-using only curl:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-openssl ts -query -data "/etc/shells" -cert -sha256 -no_nonce \
- | curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/timestamp-query" \
- --data-binary "@-" http://zeitstempel.dfn.de > etc-shells.tsr
-openssl ts -reply -text -in etc-shells.tsr
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>This produces a binary timestamp file (etc-shells.tsr) which can be
-used to verify that the content of the file /etc/shell with the
-calculated sha256 hash existed at the point in time when the request
-was made. The last command extract the content of the etc-shells.tsr
-in human readable form. The idea behind such timestamp is to be able
-to prove using cryptography that the content of a file have not
-changed since the file was stamped.</p>
-
-<p>To verify that the file on disk match the public key signature in
-the timestamp file, run the following commands. It make sure you have
-the required certificate for the trusted timestamp service available
-and use it to compare the file content with the timestamp. In
-production, one should of course use a better method to verify the
-service certificate.</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-wget -O ca-cert.txt https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt
-openssl ts -verify -data /etc/shells -in etc-shells.tsr -CAfile ca-cert.txt -text
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Wikipedia have a lot more information about
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping">trusted
-Timestamping</a> and
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping">linked
-timestamping</a>, and there are several trusted timestamping services
-around, both as commercial services and as free and public services.
-Among the latter is
-<a href="https://www.pki.dfn.de/zeitstempeldienst/">the
-zeitstempel.dfn.de service</a> mentioned above and
-<a href="https://freetsa.org/">freetsa.org service</a> linked to from the
-wikipedia web site. I believe the DIFI service should show up on
-https://tsa.difi.no, but it is not available to the public at the
-moment. I hope this will change when it is into production. The
-<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161">RFC 3161</a> trusted
-timestamping protocol standard is even implemented in LibreOffice,
-Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, making it possible to verify when
-a document was created.</p>
-
-<p>I would find it useful to be able to use such trusted timestamp
-service to make it possible to verify that my stored syslog files have
-not been tampered with. This is not a new idea. I found one example
-implemented on the Endian network appliances where
-<a href="http://help.endian.com/entries/21518508-Enabling-Timestamping-on-log-files-">the
-configuration of such feature was described in 2012</a>.</p>
-
-<p>But I could not find any free implementation of such feature when I
-searched, so I decided to try to
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/syslog-trusted-timestamp">build
-a prototype named syslog-trusted-timestamp</a>. My idea is to
-generate a timestamp of the old log files after they are rotated, and
-store the timestamp in the new log file just after rotation. This
-will form a chain that would make it possible to see if any old log
-files are tampered with. But syslog is bad at handling kilobytes of
-binary data, so I decided to base64 encode the timestamp and add an ID
-and line sequence numbers to the base64 data to make it possible to
-reassemble the timestamp file again. To use it, simply run it like
-this:
-
-<p><pre>
-syslog-trusted-timestamp /path/to/list-of-log-files
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>This will send a timestamp from one or more timestamp services (not
-yet decided nor implemented) for each listed file to the syslog using
-logger(1). To verify the timestamp, the same program is used with the
---verify option:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-syslog-trusted-timestamp --verify /path/to/log-file /path/to/log-with-timestamp
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The verification step is not yet well designed. The current
-implementation depend on the file path being unique and unchanging,
-and this is not a solid assumption. It also uses process number as
-timestamp ID, and this is bound to create ID collisions. I hope to
-have time to come up with a better way to handle timestamp IDs and
-verification later.</p>
-
-<p>Please check out
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/syslog-trusted-timestamp">the
-prototype for syslog-trusted-timestamp on github</a> and send
-suggestions and improvement, or let me know if there already exist a
-similar system for timestamping logs already to allow me to join
-forces with others with the same interest.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <title>Kommentarer til «Evaluation of (il)legality» for Popcorn Time</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentarer_til__Evaluation_of__il_legality__for_Popcorn_Time.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentarer_til__Evaluation_of__il_legality__for_Popcorn_Time.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I går var jeg i Follo tingrett som sakkyndig vitne og presenterte
+ mine undersøkelser rundt
+ <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">telling
+ av filmverk i det fri</a>, relatert til
+ <a href="https://www.nuug.no/">foreningen NUUG</a>s involvering i
+ <a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">saken om
+ Økokrims beslag og senere inndragning av DNS-domenet
+ popcorn-time.no</a>. Jeg snakket om flere ting, men mest om min
+ vurdering av hvordan filmbransjen har målt hvor ulovlig Popcorn Time
+ er. Filmbransjens måling er så vidt jeg kan se videreformidlet uten
+ endringer av norsk politi, og domstolene har lagt målingen til grunn
+ når de har vurdert Popcorn Time både i Norge og i utlandet (tallet
+ 99% er referert også i utenlandske domsavgjørelser).</p>
+
+<p>I forkant av mitt vitnemål skrev jeg et notat, mest til meg selv,
+ med de punktene jeg ønsket å få frem. Her er en kopi av notatet jeg
+ skrev og ga til aktoratet. Merkelig nok ville ikke dommerene ha
+ notatet, så hvis jeg forsto rettsprosessen riktig ble kun
+ histogram-grafen lagt inn i dokumentasjonen i saken. Dommerne var
+ visst bare interessert i å forholde seg til det jeg sa i retten,
+ ikke det jeg hadde skrevet i forkant. Uansett så antar jeg at flere
+ enn meg kan ha glede av teksten, og publiserer den derfor her.
+ Legger ved avskrift av dokument 09,13, som er det sentrale
+ dokumentet jeg kommenterer.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Kommentarer til «Evaluation of (il)legality» for Popcorn
+ Time</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>Oppsummering</strong></p>
+
+<p>Målemetoden som Økokrim har lagt til grunn når de påstår at 99% av
+ filmene tilgjengelig fra Popcorn Time deles ulovlig har
+ svakheter.</p>
+
+<p>De eller den som har vurdert hvorvidt filmer kan lovlig deles har
+ ikke lyktes med å identifisere filmer som kan deles lovlig og har
+ tilsynelatende antatt at kun veldig gamle filmer kan deles lovlig.
+ Økokrim legger til grunn at det bare finnes èn film, Charlie
+ Chaplin-filmen «The Circus» fra 1928, som kan deles fritt blant de
+ som ble observert tilgjengelig via ulike Popcorn Time-varianter.
+ Jeg finner tre flere blant de observerte filmene: «The Brain That
+ Wouldn't Die» fra 1962, «God’s Little Acre» fra 1958 og «She Wore a
+ Yellow Ribbon» fra 1949. Det er godt mulig det finnes flere. Det
+ finnes dermed minst fire ganger så mange filmer som lovlig kan deles
+ på Internett i datasettet Økokrim har lagt til grunn når det påstås
+ at mindre enn 1 % kan deles lovlig.</p>
+
+<p>Dernest, utplukket som gjøres ved søk på tilfeldige ord hentet fra
+ ordlisten til Dale-Chall avviker fra årsfordelingen til de brukte
+ filmkatalogene som helhet, hvilket påvirker fordelingen mellom
+ filmer som kan lovlig deles og filmer som ikke kan lovlig deles. I
+ tillegg gir valg av øvre del (de fem første) av søkeresultatene et
+ avvik fra riktig årsfordeling, hvilket påvirker fordelingen av verk
+ i det fri i søkeresultatet.</p>
+
+<p>Det som måles er ikke (u)lovligheten knyttet til bruken av Popcorn
+ Time, men (u)lovligheten til innholdet i bittorrent-filmkataloger
+ som vedlikeholdes uavhengig av Popcorn Time.</p>
+
+<p>Omtalte dokumenter: 09,12, <a href="#dok-09-13">09,13</a>, 09,14,
+09,18, 09,19, 09,20.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Utfyllende kommentarer</strong></p>
+
+<p>Økokrim har forklart domstolene at minst 99% av alt som er
+ tilgjengelig fra ulike Popcorn Time-varianter deles ulovlig på
+ Internet. Jeg ble nysgjerrig på hvordan de er kommet frem til dette
+ tallet, og dette notatet er en samling kommentarer rundt målingen
+ Økokrim henviser til. Litt av bakgrunnen for at jeg valgte å se på
+ saken er at jeg er interessert i å identifisere og telle hvor mange
+ kunstneriske verk som er falt i det fri eller av andre grunner kan
+ lovlig deles på Internett, og dermed var interessert i hvordan en
+ hadde funnet den ene prosenten som kanskje deles lovlig.</p>
+
+<p>Andelen på 99% kommer fra et ukreditert og udatert notatet som tar
+ mål av seg å dokumentere en metode for å måle hvor (u)lovlig ulike
+ Popcorn Time-varianter er.</p>
+
+<p>Raskt oppsummert, så forteller metodedokumentet at på grunn av at
+ det ikke er mulig å få tak i komplett liste over alle filmtitler
+ tilgjengelig via Popcorn Time, så lages noe som skal være et
+ representativt utvalg ved å velge 50 søkeord større enn tre tegn fra
+ ordlisten kjent som Dale-Chall. For hvert søkeord gjøres et søk og
+ de første fem filmene i søkeresultatet samles inn inntil 100 unike
+ filmtitler er funnet. Hvis 50 søkeord ikke var tilstrekkelig for å
+ nå 100 unike filmtitler ble flere filmer fra hvert søkeresultat lagt
+ til. Hvis dette heller ikke var tilstrekkelig, så ble det hentet ut
+ og søkt på flere tilfeldig valgte søkeord inntil 100 unike
+ filmtitler var identifisert.</p>
+
+<p>Deretter ble for hver av filmtitlene «vurdert hvorvidt det var
+ rimelig å forvente om at verket var vernet av copyright, ved å se på
+ om filmen var tilgjengelig i IMDB, samt se på regissør,
+ utgivelsesår, når det var utgitt for bestemte markedsområder samt
+ hvilke produksjons- og distribusjonsselskap som var registrert» (min
+ oversettelse).</p>
+
+<p>Metoden er gjengitt både i de ukrediterte dokumentene 09,13 og
+ 09,19, samt beskrevet fra side 47 i dokument 09,20, lysark datert
+ 2017-02-01. Sistnevnte er kreditert Geerart Bourlon fra Motion
+ Picture Association EMEA. Metoden virker å ha flere svakheter som
+ gir resultatene en slagside. Den starter med å slå fast at det ikke
+ er mulig å hente ut en komplett liste over alle filmtitler som er
+ tilgjengelig, og at dette er bakgrunnen for metodevalget. Denne
+ forutsetningen er ikke i tråd med det som står i dokument 09,12, som
+ ikke heller har oppgitt forfatter og dato. Dokument 09,12 forteller
+ hvordan hele kataloginnholdet ble lasted ned og talt opp. Dokument
+ 09,12 er muligens samme rapport som ble referert til i dom fra Oslo
+ Tingrett 2017-11-03
+ (<a href="https://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/Oslo--tingrett/Nyheter/ma-sperre-for-popcorn-time/">sak
+ 17-093347TVI-OTIR/05</a>) som rapport av 1. juni 2017 av Alexander
+ Kind Petersen, men jeg har ikke sammenlignet dokumentene ord for ord
+ for å kontrollere dette.</p>
+
+<p>IMDB er en forkortelse for The Internet Movie Database, en
+ anerkjent kommersiell nettjeneste som brukes aktivt av både
+ filmbransjen og andre til å holde rede på hvilke spillefilmer (og
+ endel andre filmer) som finnes eller er under produksjon, og
+ informasjon om disse filmene. Datakvaliteten er høy, med få feil og
+ få filmer som mangler. IMDB viser ikke informasjon om
+ opphavsrettslig status for filmene på infosiden for hver film. Som
+ del av IMDB-tjenesten finnes det lister med filmer laget av
+ frivillige som lister opp det som antas å være verk i det fri.</p>
+
+<p>Det finnes flere kilder som kan brukes til å finne filmer som er
+ allemannseie (public domain) eller har bruksvilkår som gjør det
+ lovlig for alleå dele dem på Internett. Jeg har de siste ukene
+ forsøkt å samle og krysskoble disse listene for å forsøke å telle
+ antall filmer i det fri. Ved å ta utgangspunkt i slike lister (og
+ publiserte filmer for Internett-arkivets del), har jeg så langt
+ klart å identifisere over 11 000 filmer, hovedsaklig spillefilmer.
+
+<p>De aller fleste oppføringene er hentet fra IMDB selv, basert på det
+ faktum at alle filmer laget i USA før 1923 er falt i det fri.
+ Tilsvarende tidsgrense for Storbritannia er 1912-07-01, men dette
+ utgjør bare veldig liten del av spillefilmene i IMDB (19 totalt).
+ En annen stor andel kommer fra Internett-arkivet, der jeg har
+ identifisert filmer med referanse til IMDB. Internett-arkivet, som
+ holder til i USA, har som
+ <a href="https://archive.org/about/terms.php">policy å kun publisere
+ filmer som det er lovlig å distribuere</a>. Jeg har under arbeidet
+ kommet over flere filmer som har blitt fjernet fra
+ Internett-arkivet, hvilket gjør at jeg konkluderer med at folkene
+ som kontrollerer Internett-arkivet har et aktivt forhold til å kun
+ ha lovlig innhold der, selv om det i stor grad er drevet av
+ frivillige. En annen stor liste med filmer kommer fra det
+ kommersielle selskapet Retro Film Vault, som selger allemannseide
+ filmer til TV- og filmbransjen, Jeg har også benyttet meg av lister
+ over filmer som hevdes å være allemannseie, det være seg Public
+ Domain Review, Public Domain Torrents og Public Domain Movies (.net
+ og .info), samt lister over filmer med Creative Commons-lisensiering
+ fra Wikipedia, VODO og The Hill Productions. Jeg har gjort endel
+ stikkontroll ved å vurdere filmer som kun omtales på en liste. Der
+ jeg har funnet feil som har gjort meg i tvil om vurderingen til de
+ som har laget listen har jeg forkastet listen fullstendig (gjelder
+ en liste fra IMDB).</p>
+
+<p>Ved å ta utgangspunkt i verk som kan antas å være lovlig delt på
+ Internett (fra blant annet Internett-arkivet, Public Domain
+ Torrents, Public Domain Reivew og Public Domain Movies), og knytte
+ dem til oppføringer i IMDB, så har jeg så langt klart å identifisere
+ over 11 000 filmer (hovedsaklig spillefilmer) det er grunn til å tro
+ kan lovlig distribueres av alle på Internett. Som ekstra kilder er
+ det brukt lister over filmer som antas/påstås å være allemannseie.
+ Disse kildene kommer fra miljøer som jobber for å gjøre tilgjengelig
+ for almennheten alle verk som er falt i det fri eller har
+ bruksvilkår som tillater deling.
+
+<p>I tillegg til de over 11 000 filmene der tittel-ID i IMDB er
+ identifisert, har jeg funnet mer enn 20 000 oppføringer der jeg ennå
+ ikke har hatt kapasitet til å spore opp tittel-ID i IMDB. Noen av
+ disse er nok duplikater av de IMDB-oppføringene som er identifisert
+ så langt, men neppe alle. Retro Film Vault hevder å ha 44 000
+ filmverk i det fri i sin katalog, så det er mulig at det reelle
+ tallet er betydelig høyere enn de jeg har klart å identifisere så
+ langt. Konklusjonen er at tallet 11 000 er nedre grense for hvor
+ mange filmer i IMDB som kan lovlig deles på Internett. I følge <a
+ href="http://www.imdb.com/stats">statistikk fra IMDB</a> er det 4.6
+ millioner titler registrert, hvorav 3 millioner er TV-serieepisoder.
+ Jeg har ikke funnet ut hvordan de fordeler seg per år.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis en fordeler på år alle tittel-IDene i IMDB som hevdes å lovlig
+ kunne deles på Internett, får en følgende histogram:</p>
+
+<p align="center"><img width="80%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year.png"></p>
+
+<p>En kan i histogrammet se at effekten av manglende registrering
+ eller fornying av registrering er at mange filmer gitt ut i USA før
+ 1978 er allemannseie i dag. I tillegg kan en se at det finnes flere
+ filmer gitt ut de siste årene med bruksvilkår som tillater deling,
+ muligens på grunn av fremveksten av
+ <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative
+ Commons</a>-bevegelsen..</p>
+
+<p>For maskinell analyse av katalogene har jeg laget et lite program
+ som kobler seg til bittorrent-katalogene som brukes av ulike Popcorn
+ Time-varianter og laster ned komplett liste over filmer i
+ katalogene, noe som bekrefter at det er mulig å hente ned komplett
+ liste med alle filmtitler som er tilgjengelig. Jeg har sett på fire
+ bittorrent-kataloger. Den ene brukes av klienten tilgjengelig fra
+ www.popcorntime.sh og er navngitt 'sh' i dette dokumentet. Den
+ andre brukes i følge dokument 09,12 av klienten tilgjengelig fra
+ popcorntime.ag og popcorntime.sh og er navngitt 'yts' i dette
+ dokumentet. Den tredje brukes av websidene tilgjengelig fra
+ popcorntime-online.tv og er navngitt 'apidomain' i dette dokumentet.
+ Den fjerde brukes av klienten tilgjenglig fra popcorn-time.to i
+ følge dokument 09,12, og er navngitt 'ukrfnlge' i dette
+ dokumentet.</p>
+
+<p>Metoden Økokrim legger til grunn skriver i sitt punkt fire at
+ skjønn er en egnet metode for å finne ut om en film kan lovlig deles
+ på Internett eller ikke, og sier at det ble «vurdert hvorvidt det
+ var rimelig å forvente om at verket var vernet av copyright». For
+ det første er det ikke nok å slå fast om en film er «vernet av
+ copyright» for å vite om det er lovlig å dele den på Internett eller
+ ikke, da det finnes flere filmer med opphavsrettslige bruksvilkår
+ som tillater deling på Internett. Eksempler på dette er Creative
+ Commons-lisensierte filmer som Citizenfour fra 2014 og Sintel fra
+ 2010. I tillegg til slike finnes det flere filmer som nå er
+ allemannseie (public domain) på grunn av manglende registrering
+ eller fornying av registrering selv om både regisør,
+ produksjonsselskap og distributør ønsker seg vern. Eksempler på
+ dette er Plan 9 from Outer Space fra 1959 og Night of the Living
+ Dead fra 1968. Alle filmer fra USA som var allemannseie før
+ 1989-03-01 forble i det fri da Bern-konvensjonen, som tok effekt i
+ USA på det tidspunktet, ikke ble gitt tilbakevirkende kraft. Hvis
+ det er noe
+ <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html">historien
+ om sangen «Happy birthday»</a> forteller oss, der betaling for bruk
+ har vært krevd inn i flere tiår selv om sangen ikke egentlig var
+ vernet av åndsverksloven, så er det at hvert enkelt verk må vurderes
+ nøye og i detalj før en kan slå fast om verket er allemannseie eller
+ ikke, det holder ikke å tro på selverklærte rettighetshavere. Flere
+ eksempel på verk i det fri som feilklassifiseres som vernet er fra
+ dokument 09,18, som lister opp søkeresultater for klienten omtalt
+ som popcorntime.sh og i følge notatet kun inneholder en film (The
+ Circus fra 1928) som under tvil kan antas å være allemannseie.</p>
+
+<p>Ved rask gjennomlesning av dokument 09,18, som inneholder
+ skjermbilder fra bruk av en Popcorn Time-variant, fant jeg omtalt
+ både filmen «The Brain That Wouldn't Die» fra 1962 som er
+ <a href="https://archive.org/details/brain_that_wouldnt_die">tilgjengelig
+ fra Internett-arkivet</a> og som
+ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States">i
+ følge Wikipedia er allemannseie i USA</a> da den ble gitt ut i
+ 1962 uten 'copyright'-merking, og filmen «God’s Little Acre» fra
+ 1958 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s_Little_Acre_%28film%29">som
+ er lagt ut på Wikipedia</a>, der det fortelles at
+ sort/hvit-utgaven er allemannseie. Det fremgår ikke fra dokument
+ 09,18 om filmen omtalt der er sort/hvit-utgaven. Av
+ kapasitetsårsaker og på grunn av at filmoversikten i dokument 09,18
+ ikke er maskinlesbart har jeg ikke forsøkt å sjekke alle filmene som
+ listes opp der om mot liste med filmer som er antatt lovlig kan
+ distribueres på Internet.</p>
+
+<p>Ved maskinell gjennomgang av listen med IMDB-referanser under
+ regnearkfanen 'Unique titles' i dokument 09.14, fant jeg i tillegg
+ filmen «She Wore a Yellow Ribbon» fra 1949) som nok også er
+ feilklassifisert. Filmen «She Wore a Yellow Ribbon» er tilgjengelig
+ fra Internett-arkivet og markert som allemannseie der. Det virker
+ dermed å være minst fire ganger så mange filmer som kan lovlig deles
+ på Internett enn det som er lagt til grunn når en påstår at minst
+ 99% av innholdet er ulovlig. Jeg ser ikke bort fra at nærmere
+ undersøkelser kan avdekke flere. Poenget er uansett at metodens
+ punkt om «rimelig å forvente om at verket var vernet av copyright»
+ gjør metoden upålitelig.</p>
+
+<p>Den omtalte målemetoden velger ut tilfeldige søketermer fra
+ ordlisten Dale-Chall. Den ordlisten inneholder 3000 enkle engelske
+ som fjerdeklassinger i USA er forventet å forstå. Det fremgår ikke
+ hvorfor akkurat denne ordlisten er valgt, og det er uklart for meg
+ om den er egnet til å få et representativt utvalg av filmer. Mange
+ av ordene gir tomt søkeresultat. Ved å simulerte tilsvarende søk
+ ser jeg store avvik fra fordelingen i katalogen for enkeltmålinger.
+ Dette antyder at enkeltmålinger av 100 filmer slik målemetoden
+ beskriver er gjort, ikke er velegnet til å finne andel ulovlig
+ innhold i bittorrent-katalogene.</p>
+
+<p>En kan motvirke dette store avviket for enkeltmålinger ved å gjøre
+ mange søk og slå sammen resultatet. Jeg har testet ved å
+ gjennomføre 100 enkeltmålinger (dvs. måling av (100x100=) 10 000
+ tilfeldig valgte filmer) som gir mindre, men fortsatt betydelig
+ avvik, i forhold til telling av filmer pr år i hele katalogen.</p>
+
+<p>Målemetoden henter ut de fem øverste i søkeresultatet.
+ Søkeresultatene er sortert på antall bittorrent-klienter registrert
+ som delere i katalogene, hvilket kan gi en slagside mot hvilke
+ filmer som er populære blant de som bruker bittorrent-katalogene,
+ uten at det forteller noe om hvilket innhold som er tilgjengelig
+ eller hvilket innhold som deles med Popcorn Time-klienter. Jeg har
+ forsøkt å måle hvor stor en slik slagside eventuelt er ved å
+ sammenligne fordelingen hvis en tar de 5 nederste i søkeresultatet i
+ stedet. Avviket for disse to metodene for endel kataloger er godt
+ synlig på histogramet. Her er histogram over filmer funnet i den
+ komplette katalogen (grønn strek), og filmer funnet ved søk etter
+ ord i Dale-Chall. Grafer merket 'top' henter fra de 5 første i
+ søkeresultatet, mens de merket 'bottom' henter fra de 5 siste. En
+ kan her se at resultatene påvirkes betydelig av hvorvidt en ser på
+ de første eller de siste filmene i et søketreff.</p>
+
+<p align="center">
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-sh-top.png"/>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-sh-bottom.png"/>
+ <br>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-yts-top.png"/>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-yts-bottom.png"/>
+ <br>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-ukrfnlge-top.png"/>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-ukrfnlge-bottom.png"/>
+ <br>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-apidomain-top.png"/>
+ <img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-12-20-histogram-year-apidomain-bottom.png"/>
+</p>
+
+<p>Det er verdt å bemerke at de omtalte bittorrent-katalogene ikke er
+ laget for bruk med Popcorn Time. Eksempelvis tilhører katalogen
+ YTS, som brukes av klientet som ble lastes ned fra popcorntime.sh,
+ et selvstendig fildelings-relatert nettsted YTS.AG med et separat
+ brukermiljø. Målemetoden foreslått av Økokrim måler dermed ikke
+ (u)lovligheten rundt bruken av Popcorn Time, men (u)lovligheten til
+ innholdet i disse katalogene.</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p id="dok-09-13">Metoden fra Økokrims dokument 09,13 i straffesaken
+om DNS-beslag.</p>
+
+<p><strong>1. Evaluation of (il)legality</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>1.1. Methodology</strong>
+
+<p>Due to its technical configuration, Popcorn Time applications don't
+allow to make a full list of all titles made available. In order to
+evaluate the level of illegal operation of PCT, the following
+methodology was applied:</p>
+
+<ol>
+
+ <li>A random selection of 50 keywords, greater than 3 letters, was
+ made from the Dale-Chall list that contains 3000 simple English
+ words1. The selection was made by using a Random Number
+ Generator2.</li>
+
+ <li>For each keyword, starting with the first randomly selected
+ keyword, a search query was conducted in the movie section of the
+ respective Popcorn Time application. For each keyword, the first
+ five results were added to the title list until the number of 100
+ unique titles was reached (duplicates were removed).</li>
+
+ <li>For one fork, .CH, insufficient titles were generated via this
+ approach to reach 100 titles. This was solved by adding any
+ additional query results above five for each of the 50 keywords.
+ Since this still was not enough, another 42 random keywords were
+ selected to finally reach 100 titles.</li>
+
+ <li>It was verified whether or not there is a reasonable expectation
+ that the work is copyrighted by checking if they are available on
+ IMDb, also verifying the director, the year when the title was
+ released, the release date for a certain market, the production
+ company/ies of the title and the distribution company/ies.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p><strong>1.2. Results</strong></p>
+
+<p>Between 6 and 9 June 2016, four forks of Popcorn Time were
+investigated: popcorn-time.to, popcorntime.ag, popcorntime.sh and
+popcorntime.ch. An excel sheet with the results is included in
+Appendix 1. Screenshots were secured in separate Appendixes for each
+respective fork, see Appendix 2-5.</p>
+
+<p>For each fork, out of 100, de-duplicated titles it was possible to
+retrieve data according to the parameters set out above that indicate
+that the title is commercially available. Per fork, there was 1 title
+that presumably falls within the public domain, i.e. the 1928 movie
+"The Circus" by and with Charles Chaplin.</p>
+
+<p>Based on the above it is reasonable to assume that 99% of the movie
+content of each fork is copyright protected and is made available
+illegally.</p>
+
+<p>This exercise was not repeated for TV series, but considering that
+besides production companies and distribution companies also
+broadcasters may have relevant rights, it is reasonable to assume that
+at least a similar level of infringement will be established.</p>
+
+<p>Based on the above it is reasonable to assume that 99% of all the
+content of each fork is copyright protected and are made available
+illegally.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Full battery stats collector is now available in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Full_battery_stats_collector_is_now_available_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Full_battery_stats_collector_is_now_available_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Since this morning, the battery-stats package in Debian include an
-extended collector that will collect the complete battery history for
-later processing and graphing. The original collector store the
-battery level as percentage of last full level, while the new
-collector also record battery vendor, model, serial number, design
-full level, last full level and current battery level. This make it
-possible to predict the lifetime of the battery as well as visualise
-the energy flow when the battery is charging or discharging.</p>
-
-<p>The new tools are available in <tt>/usr/share/battery-stats/</tt>
-in the version 0.5.1 package in unstable. Get the new battery level graph
-and lifetime prediction by running:
-
-<p><pre>
-/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph /var/log/battery-stats.csv
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Or select the 'Battery Level Graph' from your application menu.</p>
-
-<p>The flow in/out of the battery can be seen by running (no menu
-entry yet):</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph-flow
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>I'm not quite happy with the way the data is visualised, at least
-when there are few data points. The graphs look a bit better with a
-few years of data.</p>
-
-<p>A while back one important feature I use in the battery stats
-collector broke in Debian. The scripts in
-<tt>/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/</tt> were no longer executed. I
-suspect it happened when Jessie started using systemd, but I do not
-know. The issue is reported as
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/818649">bug #818649</a> against
-pm-utils. I managed to work around it by adding an udev rule to call
-the collector script every time the power connector is connected and
-disconnected. With this fix in place it was finally time to make a
-new release of the package, and get it into Debian.</p>
-
-<p>If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please
-check out the
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats</a>
-in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on
-Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
-As always, patches are very welcome.</p>
+ <title>Cura, the nice 3D print slicer, is now in Debian Unstable</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cura__the_nice_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian_Unstable.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cura__the_nice_3D_print_slicer__is_now_in_Debian_Unstable.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After several months of working and waiting, I am happy to report
+that the nice and user friendly 3D printer slicer software Cura just
+entered Debian Unstable. It consist of five packages,
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura">cura</a>,
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cura-engine">cura-engine</a>,
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libarcus">libarcus</a>,
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fdm-materials">fdm-materials</a>,
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libsavitar">libsavitar</a> and
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uranium">uranium</a>. The last
+two, uranium and cura, entered Unstable yesterday. This should make
+it easier for Debian users to print on at least the Ultimaker class of
+3D printers. My nearest 3D printer is an Ultimaker 2+, so it will
+make life easier for at least me. :)</p>
+
+<p>The work to make this happen was done by Gregor Riepl, and I was
+happy to assist him in sponsoring the packages. With the introduction
+of Cura, Debian is up to three 3D printer slicers at your service,
+Cura, Slic3r and Slic3r Prusa. If you own or have access to a 3D
+printer, give it a go. :)</p>
+
+<p>The 3D printer software is maintained by the 3D printer Debian
+team, flocking together on the
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/3dprinter-general">3dprinter-general</a>
+mailing list and the
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-3dprinting">#debian-3dprinting</a>
+IRC channel.</p>
+
+<p>The next step for Cura in Debian is to update the cura package to
+version 3.0.3 and then update the entire set of packages to version
+3.1.0 which showed up the last few days.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>UsingQR - "Electronic" paper invoices using JSON and QR codes</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/UsingQR____Electronic__paper_invoices_using_JSON_and_QR_codes.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Back in 2013 I proposed
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Electronic__paper_invoices___using_vCard_in_a_QR_code.html">a
-way to make paper and PDF invoices easier to process electronically by
-adding a QR code with the key information about the invoice</a>. I
-suggested using vCard field definition, to get some standard format
-for name and address, but any format would work. I did not do
-anything about the proposal, but hoped someone one day would make
-something like it. It would make it possible to efficiently send
-machine readable invoices directly between seller and buyer.</p>
-
-<p>This was the background when I came across a proposal and
-specification from the web based accounting and invoicing supplier
-<a href="http://www.visma.com/">Visma</a> in Sweden called
-<a href="http://usingqr.com/">UsingQR</a>. Their PDF invoices contain
-a QR code with the key information of the invoice in JSON format.
-This is the typical content of a QR code following the UsingQR
-specification (based on a real world example, some numbers replaced to
-get a more bogus entry). I've reformatted the JSON to make it easier
-to read. Normally this is all on one long line:</p>
-
-<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-19-qr-invoice.png" align="right"><pre>
-{
- "vh":500.00,
- "vm":0,
- "vl":0,
- "uqr":1,
- "tp":1,
- "nme":"Din Leverandør",
- "cc":"NO",
- "cid":"997912345 MVA",
- "iref":"12300001",
- "idt":"20151022",
- "ddt":"20151105",
- "due":2500.0000,
- "cur":"NOK",
- "pt":"BBAN",
- "acc":"17202612345",
- "bc":"BIENNOK1",
- "adr":"0313 OSLO"
-}
-</pre></p>
+ <title>Idea for finding all public domain movies in the USA</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_finding_all_public_domain_movies_in_the_USA.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_finding_all_public_domain_movies_in_the_USA.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>While looking at
+<a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/">the scanned copies
+for the copyright renewal entries for movies published in the USA</a>,
+an idea occurred to me. The number of renewals are so few per year, it
+should be fairly quick to transcribe them all and add references to
+the corresponding IMDB title ID. This would give the (presumably)
+complete list of movies published 28 years earlier that did _not_
+enter the public domain for the transcribed year. By fetching the
+list of USA movies published 28 years earlier and subtract the movies
+with renewals, we should be left with movies registered in IMDB that
+are now in the public domain. For the year 1955 (which is the one I
+have looked at the most), the total number of pages to transcribe is
+21. For the 28 years from 1950 to 1978, it should be in the range
+500-600 pages. It is just a few days of work, and spread among a
+small group of people it should be doable in a few weeks of spare
+time.</p>
+
+<p>A typical copyright renewal entry look like this (the first one
+listed for 1955):</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+ ADAM AND EVIL, a photoplay in seven reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
+ Distribution Corp. (c) 17Aug27; L24293. Loew's Incorporated (PWH);
+ 10Jun55; R151558.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The movie title as well as registration and renewal dates are easy
+enough to locate by a program (split on first comma and look for
+DDmmmYY). The rest of the text is not required to find the movie in
+IMDB, but is useful to confirm the correct movie is found. I am not
+quite sure what the L and R numbers mean, but suspect they are
+reference numbers into the archive of the US Copyright Office.</p>
+
+<p>Tracking down the equivalent IMDB title ID is probably going to be
+a manual task, but given the year it is fairly easy to search for the
+movie title using for example
+<a href="http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&s=all">http://www.imdb.com/find?q=adam+and+evil+1927&s=all</a>.
+Using this search, I find that the equivalent IMDB title ID for the
+first renewal entry from 1955 is
+<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017588/</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I suspect the best way to do this would be to make a specialised
+web service to make it easy for contributors to transcribe and track
+down IMDB title IDs. In the web service, once a entry is transcribed,
+the title and year could be extracted from the text, a search in IMDB
+conducted for the user to pick the equivalent IMDB title ID right
+away. By spreading out the work among volunteers, it would also be
+possible to make at least two persons transcribe the same entries to
+be able to discover any typos introduced. But I will need help to
+make this happen, as I lack the spare time to do all of this on my
+own. If you would like to help, please get in touch. Perhaps you can
+draft a web service for crowd sourcing the task?</p>
+
+<p>Note, Project Gutenberg already have some
+<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=copyright+office+renewals">transcribed
+copies of the US Copyright Office renewal protocols</a>, but I have
+not been able to find any film renewals there, so I suspect they only
+have copies of renewal for written works. I have not been able to find
+any transcribed versions of movie renewals so far. Perhaps they exist
+somewhere?</p>
+
+<p>I would love to figure out methods for finding all the public
+domain works in other countries too, but it is a lot harder. At least
+for Norway and Great Britain, such work involve tracking down the
+people involved in making the movie and figuring out when they died.
+It is hard enough to figure out who was part of making a movie, but I
+do not know how to automate such procedure without a registry of every
+person involved in making movies and their death year.</p>
-</p>The interpretation of the fields can be found in the
-<a href="http://usingqr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/UsingQR_specification1.pdf">format
-specification</a> (revision 2 from june 2014). The format seem to
-have most of the information needed to handle accounting and payment
-of invoices, at least the fields I have needed so far here in
-Norway.</p>
-
-<p>Unfortunately, the site and document do not mention anything about
-the patent, trademark and copyright status of the format and the
-specification. Because of this, I asked the people behind it back in
-November to clarify. Ann-Christine Savlid (ann-christine.savlid (at)
-visma.com) replied that Visma had not applied for patent or trademark
-protection for this format, and that there were no copyright based
-usage limitations for the format. I urged her to make sure this was
-explicitly written on the web pages and in the specification, but
-unfortunately this has not happened yet. So I guess if there is
-submarine patents, hidden trademarks or a will to sue for copyright
-infringements, those starting to use the UsingQR format might be at
-risk, but if this happen there is some legal defense in the fact that
-the people behind the format claimed it was safe to do so. At least
-with patents, there is always
-<a href="http://www.paperspecs.com/paper-news/beware-the-qr-code-patent-trap/">a
-chance of getting sued...</a></p>
-
-<p>I also asked if they planned to maintain the format in an
-independent standard organization to give others more confidence that
-they would participate in the standardization process on equal terms
-with Visma, but they had no immediate plans for this. Their plan was
-to work with banks to try to get more users of the format, and
-evaluate the way forward if the format proved to be popular. I hope
-they conclude that using an open standard organisation like
-<a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> is the correct place to
-maintain such specification.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2016-03-20</strong>: Via Twitter I became aware of
-<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11319492">some comments
-about this blog post</a> that had several useful links and references to
-similar systems. In the Czech republic, the Czech Banking Association
-standard #26, with short name SPAYD, uses QR codes with payment
-information. More information is available from the Wikipedia page on
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Payment_Descriptor">Short
-Payment Descriptor</a>. And in Germany, there is a system named
-<a href="http://www.bezahlcode.de/">BezahlCode</a>,
-(<a href="http://www.bezahlcode.de/wp-content/uploads/BezahlCode_TechDok.pdf">specification
-v1.8 2013-12-05 available as PDF</a>), which uses QR codes with
-URL-like formatting using "bank:" as the URI schema/protocol to
-provide the payment information. There is also the
-<a href="http://www.ferd-net.de/front_content.php?idcat=231">ZUGFeRD</a>
-file format that perhaps could be transfered using QR codes, but I am
-not sure if it is done already. Last, in Bolivia there are reports
-that tax information since november 2014 need to be printed in QR
-format on invoices. I have not been able to track down a
-specification for this format, because of my limited language skill
-sets.</p>
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Back in September, I blogged about
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html">the
-system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery</a>, and
-how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced). I
-created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing,
-but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">a battery-stats
-package in Debian</a> that should do the same thing, and I did not see
-a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be
-fixed instead. I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and
-hoped someone would step in and fix it. But no-one did.</p>
-
-<p>I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own
-hands. The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of
-battery stats (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">available from github</a>) and part of the team maintaining
-battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally
-able to collect battery status using the <tt>/sys/class/power_supply/</tt>
-information provided by the Linux kernel. If you install the
-battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a
-graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the
-status of the battery. The source package build and work just fine in
-Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not
-tested). The default graph you get for that system look like this:</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-15-battery-stats-graph-example.png" width="70%" align="center"></p>
-
-<p>My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the
-battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details
-about the battery. The scripts are merged into the upstream
-battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work
-yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way. Will have to test a
-bit more before I make a new release.</p>
-
-<p>I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I
-suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it
-impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing
-and graphing.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop
-battery, check out the battery-stats package in
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">Debian</a> and
-on
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats">github</a>.
-I would love some help to improve the system further.</p>
+ <title>Is the short movie «Empty Socks» from 1927 in the public domain or not?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_the_short_movie__Empty_Socks__from_1927_in_the_public_domain_or_not_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_the_short_movie__Empty_Socks__from_1927_in_the_public_domain_or_not_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Three years ago, a presumed lost animation film,
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Socks">Empty Socks from
+1927</a>, was discovered in the Norwegian National Library. At the
+time it was discovered, it was generally assumed to be copyrighted by
+The Walt Disney Company, and I blogged about
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavsretts_status_for__Empty_Socks__fra_1927_.html">my
+reasoning to conclude</a> that it would would enter the Norwegian
+equivalent of the public domain in 2053, based on my understanding of
+Norwegian Copyright Law. But a few days ago, I came across
+<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/exposed-disneys-repurchase-of-oswald-the-rabbit-a-sham.4792291/">a
+blog post claiming the movie was already in the public domain</a>, at
+least in USA. The reasoning is as follows: The film was released in
+November or Desember 1927 (sources disagree), and presumably
+registered its copyright that year. At that time, right holders of
+movies registered by the copyright office received government
+protection for there work for 28 years. After 28 years, the copyright
+had to be renewed if the wanted the government to protect it further.
+The blog post I found claim such renewal did not happen for this
+movie, and thus it entered the public domain in 1956. Yet someone
+claim the copyright was renewed and the movie is still copyright
+protected. Can anyone help me to figure out which claim is correct?
+I have not been able to find Empty Socks in Catalog of copyright
+entries. Ser.3 pt.12-13 v.9-12 1955-1958 Motion Pictures
+<a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/1955r.html#film">available
+from the University of Pennsylvania</a>, neither in
+<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=83;num=45">page
+45 for the first half of 1955</a>, nor in
+<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084451130;page=root;view=image;size=100;seq=175;num=119">page
+119 for the second half of 1955</a>. It is of course possible that
+the renewal entry was left out of the printed catalog by mistake. Is
+there some way to rule out this possibility? Please help, and update
+the wikipedia page with your findings.
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
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<item>
- <title>Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to
-details. And one of the details is the content of the
-debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by
-the code in the package in question, preferably in
-<a href="https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/">machine
-readable DEP5 format</a>.</p>
-
-<p>For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write
-and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the
-package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters. So getting it right
-the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save
-both you and the ftpmasters some work.. Today, while trying to figure
-out what was wrong with
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686447">the
-zfsonlinux copyright file</a>, I decided to spend some time on
-figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least
-semi-automatically.</p>
-
-<p>Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the
-file based on the code in the source package,
-<tt><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debmake">debmake</a></tt>
-and <tt><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cme">cme</a></tt>. I'm
-not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to
-create a sensible draft file. As far as I can tell, none of them can
-be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be
-polished a bit before the file is OK to upload. I found the debmake
-option in
-<a href="http://goofying-with-debian.blogspot.com/2014/07/debmake-checking-source-against-dep-5.html">a
-blog posts from 2014</a>.
-
-<p>To generate using debmake, use the -cc option:
-
-<p><pre>
-debmake -cc > debian/copyright
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so
-this might not be the best option.</p>
-
-<p>The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found
-this approach in
-<a href="https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/">a
-blog post from 2015</a>. To generate using cme, use the 'update
-dpkg-copyright' option:
+ <title>Metadata proposal for movies on the Internet Archive</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Metadata_proposal_for_movies_on_the_Internet_Archive.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It would be easier to locate the movie you want to watch in
+<a href="https://www.archive.org/">the Internet Archive</a>, if the
+metadata about each movie was more complete and accurate. In the
+archiving community, a well known saying state that good metadata is a
+love letter to the future. The metadata in the Internet Archive could
+use a face lift for the future to love us back. Here is a proposal
+for a small improvement that would make the metadata more useful
+today. I've been unable to find any document describing the various
+standard fields available when uploading videos to the archive, so
+this proposal is based on my best quess and searching through several
+of the existing movies.</p>
+
+<p>I have a few use cases in mind. First of all, I would like to be
+able to count the number of distinct movies in the Internet Archive,
+without duplicates. I would further like to identify the IMDB title
+ID of the movies in the Internet Archive, to be able to look up a IMDB
+title ID and know if I can fetch the video from there and share it
+with my friends.</p>
+
+<p>Second, I would like the Butter data provider for The Internet
+archive
+(<a href="https://github.com/butterproviders/butter-provider-archive">available
+from github</a>), to list as many of the good movies as possible. The
+plugin currently do a search in the archive with the following
+parameters:</p>
<p><pre>
-cme update dpkg-copyright
+collection:moviesandfilms
+AND NOT collection:movie_trailers
+AND -mediatype:collection
+AND format:"Archive BitTorrent"
+AND year
</pre></p>
-<p>This will create or update debian/copyright. The cme tool seem to
-handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.</p>
-
-<p>When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to
-check if the file is correct. For this I found two good options,
-<tt>debmake -k</tt> and <tt>license-reconcile</tt>. The former seem
-to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect
-ineffective blocks in the copyright file. The latter reports missing
-copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license
-names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0). I suspect it is good to use both and
-fix all issues reported by them before uploading. But I do not know
-if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a
-copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.</p>
-
-<p>The devscripts tool <tt>licensecheck</tt> deserve mentioning. It
-will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements.
-It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but
-can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.</p>
-
-<p>Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update
-debian/copyright file. Please let me know, or blog about it on
-planet.debian.org.</p>
+<p>Most of the cool movies that fail to show up in Butter do so
+because the 'year' field is missing. The 'year' field is populated by
+the year part from the 'date' field, and should be when the movie was
+released (date or year). Two such examples are
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/SidneyOlcottsBen-hur1905">Ben Hur
+from 1905</a> and
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/Caminandes2GranDillama">Caminandes
+2: Gran Dillama from 2013</a>, where the year metadata field is
+missing.</p>
+
+So, my proposal is simply, for every movie in The Internet Archive
+where an IMDB title ID exist, please fill in these metadata fields
+(note, they can be updated also long after the video was uploaded, but
+as far as I can tell, only by the uploader):
+
+<dl>
+
+<dt>mediatype</dt>
+<dd>Should be 'movie' for movies.</dd>
+
+<dt>collection</dt>
+<dd>Should contain 'moviesandfilms'.</dd>
+
+<dt>title</dt>
+<dd>The title of the movie, without the publication year.</dd>
+
+<dt>date</dt>
+<dd>The data or year the movie was released. This make the movie show
+up in Butter, as well as make it possible to know the age of the
+movie and is useful to figure out copyright status.</dd>
+
+<dt>director</dt>
+<dd>The director of the movie. This make it easier to know if the
+correct movie is found in movie databases.</dd>
+
+<dt>publisher</dt>
+<dd>The production company making the movie. Also useful for
+identifying the correct movie.</dd>
+
+<dt>links</dt>
+
+<dd>Add a link to the IMDB title page, for example like this: &lt;a
+href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028496/"&gt;Movie in
+IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. This make it easier to find duplicates and allow for
+counting of number of unique movies in the Archive. Other external
+references, like to TMDB, could be added like this too.</dd>
+
+</dl>
+
+<p>I did consider proposing a Custom field for the IMDB title ID (for
+example 'imdb_title_url', 'imdb_code' or simply 'imdb', but suspect it
+will be easier to simply place it in the links free text field.</p>
+
+<p>I created
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
+list of IMDB title IDs for several thousand movies in the Internet
+Archive</a>, but I also got a list of several thousand movies without
+such IMDB title ID (and quite a few duplicates). It would be great if
+this data set could be integrated into the Internet Archive metadata
+to be available for everyone in the future, but with the current
+policy of leaving metadata editing to the uploaders, it will take a
+while before this happen. If you have uploaded movies into the
+Internet Archive, you can help. Please consider following my proposal
+above for your movies, to ensure that movie is properly
+counted. :)</p>
+
+<p>The list is mostly generated using wikidata, which based on
+Wikipedia articles make it possible to link between IMDB and movies in
+the Internet Archive. But there are lots of movies without a
+Wikipedia article, and some movies where only a collection page exist
+(like for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminandes">the
+Caminandes example above</a>, where there are three movies but only
+one Wikidata entry).</p>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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-
-<p><strong>Update 2016-02-20</strong>: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel
-on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file
-
-<p><pre>
-licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
- /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright.auto
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the
-version control system to make it easier to discover license and
-copyright changes in the upstream source. I will try to do the same
-with my packages in the future.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2016-02-21</strong>: The cme author recommended
-against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed
-command line.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">appstream system</a>
-is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very
-convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given
-firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it. This can
-be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog
-about. :)</p>
-
-<p>Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware
-file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly
-picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian
-unstable. In general you would be looking for the firmware requested
-by the kernel during kernel module loading. To find the package
-providing the example file, do like this:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
- awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-firmware-qlogic
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>See <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines">the
-appstream wiki</a> page to learn how to embed the package metadata in
-a way appstream can use.</p>
-
-<p>This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a
-given MIME type. This is very useful when you get a file you do not
-know how to handle. First find the mime type using <tt>file
---mime-type</tt>, and next look up the package providing support for
-it. Lets say you got an SVG file. Its MIME type is image/svg+xml,
-and you can find all packages handling this type like this:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% apt install appstream
-[...]
-% apt update
-[...]
-% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
- awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
-bkchem
-phototonic
-inkscape
-shutter
-tetzle
-geeqie
-xia
-pinta
-gthumb
-karbon
-comix
-mirage
-viewnior
-postr
-ristretto
-kolourpaint4
-eog
-eom
-gimagereader
-midori
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for
-packages providing appstream metadata.</p>
+ <title>Legal to share more than 3000 movies listed on IMDB?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_3000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_3000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A month ago, I blogged about my work to
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html">automatically
+check the copyright status of IMDB entries</a>, and try to count the
+number of movies listed in IMDB that is legal to distribute on the
+Internet. I have continued to look for good data sources, and
+identified a few more. The code used to extract information from
+various data sources is available in
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/public-domain-free-imdb">a
+git repository</a>, currently available from github.</p>
+
+<p>So far I have identified 3186 unique IMDB title IDs. To gain
+better understanding of the structure of the data set, I created a
+histogram of the year associated with each movie (typically release
+year). It is interesting to notice where the peaks and dips in the
+graph are located. I wonder why they are placed there. I suspect
+World War II caused the dip around 1940, but what caused the peak
+around 2010?</p>
+
+<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-11-18-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png" /></p>
+
+<p>I've so far identified ten sources for IMDB title IDs for movies in
+the public domain or with a free license. This is the statistics
+reported when running 'make stats' in the git repository:</p>
+
+<pre>
+ 249 entries ( 6 unique) with and 288 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-butter.json
+ 2301 entries ( 540 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json
+ 830 entries ( 29 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json
+ 2109 entries ( 377 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json
+ 291 entries ( 122 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json
+ 144 entries ( 135 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json
+ 350 entries ( 1 unique) with and 801 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies.json
+ 4 entries ( 0 unique) with and 124 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json
+ 698 entries ( 119 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json
+ 8 entries ( 8 unique) with and 196 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json
+ 3186 unique IMDB title IDs in total
+</pre>
+
+<p>The entries without IMDB title ID are candidates to increase the
+data set, but might equally well be duplicates of entries already
+listed with IMDB title ID in one of the other sources, or represent
+movies that lack a IMDB title ID. I've seen examples of all these
+situations when peeking at the entries without IMDB title ID. Based
+on these data sources, the lower bound for movies listed in IMDB that
+are legal to distribute on the Internet is between 3186 and 4713.
+
+<p>It would be great for improving the accuracy of this measurement,
+if the various sources added IMDB title ID to their metadata. I have
+tried to reach the people behind the various sources to ask if they
+are interested in doing this, without any replies so far. Perhaps you
+can help me get in touch with the people behind VODO, Public Domain
+Torrents, Public Domain Movies and Public Domain Review to try to
+convince them to add more metadata to their movie entries?</p>
+
+<p>Another way you could help is by adding pages to Wikipedia about
+movies that are legal to distribute on the Internet. If such page
+exist and include a link to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, the
+script used to generate free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json should
+pick up the mapping as soon as wikidata is updates.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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<item>
- <title>Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around
-with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their
-position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long
-time (like every time a SMS is received or sent). And if their
-computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called
-mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often
-also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access
-during installation). And when these programs send out information to
-central collection points, the location is often included, unless
-extra care is taken to not send the location. The provided
-information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is
-good and bad, depend on your point of view). What is certain, is that
-the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and
-perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way,
-when they share their whereabouts with private and public
-entities.</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png"></p>
-
-<p>The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out
-when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing. It is
-unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government
-officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from
-unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information. But the
-public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software
-tool to do so is called
-<a href="http://www.geocreepy.com/">Creepy or Cree.py</a>. I
-discovered it when I read
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html">an
-article about Creepy</a> in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i
-November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian.
-The python program was in Debian, but
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy">the version in
-Debian</a> was completely broken and practically unmaintained. I
-uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not
-have time to fix it then. This Christmas I decided to finally try to
-get Creepy operational in Debian. Now a fixed version is available in
-Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches
-are now included
-<a href="https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy">upstream</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from
-Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a
-complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a
-given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all
-these services. Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at
-least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these
-days it is impossible. This mean that to use Creepy, you need to
-configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide
-information to them about your search interests. This should be taken
-into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information
-about yourself with the services.</p>
-
-<p>The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least
-geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital
-of Norway. One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at
-information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the
-information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area.
-I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in
-twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a
-Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time,
-making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other
-things. A similar technique have been
-<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl">used
-to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine</a>, and it is both a powerful
-tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people
-understand the value of the private information they provide to the
-public.</p>
-
-<p>The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as
-it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at
-least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and
-python-requests-toolbelt).</p>
-
-<p>(I have uploaded
-<a href="https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy">the image to
-screenshots.debian.net</a> and licensed it under the same terms as the
-Creepy program in Debian.)</p>
+ <title>Some notes on fault tolerant storage systems</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_fault_tolerant_storage_systems.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_fault_tolerant_storage_systems.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>If you care about how fault tolerant your storage is, you might
+find these articles and papers interesting. They have formed how I
+think of when designing a storage system.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>USENIX :login; <a
+href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/summer2017/ganesan">Redundancy
+Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance. Analysis of Distributed Storage
+Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions</a> by Aishwarya Ganesan,
+Ramnatthan Alagappan, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi
+H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
+
+<li>ZDNet
+<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/">Why
+RAID 5 stops working in 2009</a> by Robin Harris</li>
+
+<li>ZDNet
+<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/">Why
+RAID 6 stops working in 2019</a> by Robin Harris</li>
+
+<li>USENIX FAST'07
+<a href="http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf">Failure
+Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population</a> by Eduardo Pinheiro,
+Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz André Barroso</li>
+
+<li>USENIX ;login: <a
+href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/hughes12-04.pdf">Data
+Integrity. Finding Truth in a World of Guesses and Lies</a> by Doug
+Hughes</li>
+
+<li>USENIX FAST'08
+<a href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/bairavasundaram/bairavasundaram_html/">An
+Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack</a> by
+L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, B. Schroeder, A. C.
+Arpaci-Dusseau, and R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau</li>
+
+<li>USENIX FAST'07 <a
+href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/">Disk
+failures in the real world: what does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean
+to you?</a> by B. Schroeder and G. A. Gibson.</li>
+
+<li>USENIX ;login: <a
+href="https://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/">Are
+Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive
+Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics</a> by Weihang
+Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Arkady Kanevsky</li>
+
+<li>SIGMETRICS 2007
+<a href="http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.pdf">An
+analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives</a> by
+L. N. Bairavasundaram, G. R. Goodson, S. Pasupathy, and J. Schindler</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Several of these research papers are based on data collected from
+hundred thousands or millions of disk, and their findings are eye
+opening. The short story is simply do not implicitly trust RAID or
+redundant storage systems. Details matter. And unfortunately there
+are few options on Linux addressing all the identified issues. Both
+ZFS and Btrfs are doing a fairly good job, but have legal and
+practical issues on their own. I wonder how cluster file systems like
+Ceph do in this regard. After all, there is an old saying, you know
+you have a distributed system when the crash of a computer you have
+never heard of stops you from getting any work done. The same holds
+true if fault tolerance do not work.</p>
+
+<p>Just remember, in the end, it do not matter how redundant, or how
+fault tolerant your storage is, if you do not continuously monitor its
+status to detect and replace failed disks.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum
-<a href="https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/">observed
-that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to
-believe a computer have a given security hole</a> if it download a
-security fix from a Debian mirror. This is a good reason to always
-use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those
-listening do not know which IP address to attack. In August, Richard
-Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible
-to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that
-download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and
-<a href="http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/">proposed
-to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror</a>. He
-was not the first to propose this, as the
-<tt><a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor">apt-transport-tor</a></tt>
-package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt
-to use <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor</a>, but I was not
-aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.</p>
-
-<p>Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian
-sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central
-Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making
-it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes,
-making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.</p>
-
-<p>Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by
-installing <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> and replacing http and https
-urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead
-of the official Debian mirror site. I recommend installing
-<tt>etckeeper</tt> before you start to have a history of the changes
-done in /etc/.</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-apt install apt-transport-tor
-sed -i 's% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%' /etc/apt/sources.list
-sed -i 's% http% tor+http%' /etc/apt/sources.list
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run
-the sed commands for these too. The sed command is assuming your are
-using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror. Adjust the command (or just
-edit the file manually) to match your mirror.</p>
-
-<p>This work in Debian Jessie and later. Note that tools like
-<tt>apt-file</tt> only recently started using the apt transport
-system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs. For
-<tt>apt-file</tt> you need the version currently in experimental,
-which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable. So if you
-need a working <tt>apt-file</tt>, this is not for you.</p>
-
-<p>Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start
-using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you
-update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus
-masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine. Using Tor will
-become normal for the machine in question.</p>
-
-<p>On <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox</a>, APT
-is set up by default to use <tt>apt-transport-tor</tt> when Tor is
-enabled. It would be great if it was the default on any Debian
-system.</p>
+ <title>Web services for writing academic LaTeX papers as a team</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_services_for_writing_academic_LaTeX_papers_as_a_team.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_services_for_writing_academic_LaTeX_papers_as_a_team.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I was surprised today to learn that a friend in academia did not
+know there are easily available web services available for writing
+LaTeX documents as a team. I thought it was common knowledge, but to
+make sure at least my readers are aware of it, I would like to mention
+these useful services for writing LaTeX documents. Some of them even
+provide a WYSIWYG editor to ease writing even further.</p>
+
+<p>There are two commercial services available,
+<a href="https://sharelatex.com">ShareLaTeX</a> and
+<a href="https://overleaf.com">Overleaf</a>. They are very easy to
+use. Just start a new document, select which publisher to write for
+(ie which LaTeX style to use), and start writing. Note, these two
+have announced their intention to join forces, so soon it will only be
+one joint service. I've used both for different documents, and they
+work just fine. While
+<a href="https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex">ShareLaTeX is free
+software</a>, while the latter is not. According to <a
+href="https://www.overleaf.com/help/17-is-overleaf-open-source">a
+announcement from Overleaf</a>, they plan to keep the ShareLaTeX code
+base maintained as free software.</p>
+
+But these two are not the only alternatives.
+<a href="https://app.fiduswriter.org/">Fidus Writer</a> is another free
+software solution with <a href="https://github.com/fiduswriter">the
+source available on github</a>. I have not used it myself. Several
+others can be found on the nice
+<a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/sharelatex/">alterntiveTo
+web service</a>.
+
+<p>If you like Google Docs or Etherpad, but would like to write
+documents in LaTeX, you should check out these services. You can even
+host your own, if you want to. :)</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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- <title>Nedlasting fra NRK, som Matroska med undertekster</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Det kommer stadig nye løsninger for å ta lagre unna innslag fra NRK
-for å se på det senere. For en stund tilbake kom jeg over et script
-nrkopptak laget av Ingvar Hagelund. Han fjernet riktignok sitt script
-etter forespørsel fra Erik Bolstad i NRK, men noen tok heldigvis og
-gjorde det <a href="https://github.com/liangqi/nrkopptak">tilgjengelig
-via github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Scriptet kan lagre som MPEG4 eller Matroska, og bake inn
-undertekster i fila på et vis som blant annet VLC forstår. For å
-bruke scriptet, kopier ned git-arkivet og kjør</p>
+ <title>Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Recently, I needed to automatically check the copyright status of a
+set of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">The Internet Movie database
+(IMDB)</a> entries, to figure out which one of the movies they refer
+to can be freely distributed on the Internet. This proved to be
+harder than it sounds. IMDB for sure list movies without any
+copyright protection, where the copyright protection has expired or
+where the movie is lisenced using a permissive license like one from
+Creative Commons. These are mixed with copyright protected movies,
+and there seem to be no way to separate these classes of movies using
+the information in IMDB.</p>
+
+<p>First I tried to look up entries manually in IMDB,
+<a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> and
+<a href="https://www.archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a>, to get a
+feel how to do this. It is hard to know for sure using these sources,
+but it should be possible to be reasonable confident a movie is "out
+of copyright" with a few hours work per movie. As I needed to check
+almost 20,000 entries, this approach was not sustainable. I simply
+can not work around the clock for about 6 years to check this data
+set.</p>
+
+<p>I asked the people behind The Internet Archive if they could
+introduce a new metadata field in their metadata XML for IMDB ID, but
+was told that they leave it completely to the uploaders to update the
+metadata. Some of the metadata entries had IMDB links in the
+description, but I found no way to download all metadata files in bulk
+to locate those ones and put that approach aside.</p>
+
+<p>In the process I noticed several Wikipedia articles about movies
+had links to both IMDB and The Internet Archive, and it occured to me
+that I could use the Wikipedia RDF data set to locate entries with
+both, to at least get a lower bound on the number of movies on The
+Internet Archive with a IMDB ID. This is useful based on the
+assumption that movies distributed by The Internet Archive can be
+legally distributed on the Internet. With some help from the RDF
+community (thank you DanC), I was able to come up with this query to
+pass to <a href="https://query.wikidata.org/">the SPARQL interface on
+Wikidata</a>:
<p><pre>
-nrkopptak/bin/nrk-opptak k <ahref="https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1">https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1</a>
+SELECT ?work ?imdb ?ia ?when ?label
+WHERE
+{
+ ?work wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q11424.
+ ?work wdt:P345 ?imdb.
+ ?work wdt:P724 ?ia.
+ OPTIONAL {
+ ?work wdt:P577 ?when.
+ ?work rdfs:label ?label.
+ FILTER(LANG(?label) = "en").
+ }
+}
</pre></p>
-<p>URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no. Argument 'k' ber
-scriptet laste ned og lagre som Matroska. Det finnes en rekke andre
-muligheter for valg av kvalitet og format.</p>
+<p>If I understand the query right, for every film entry anywhere in
+Wikpedia, it will return the IMDB ID and The Internet Archive ID, and
+when the movie was released and its English title, if either or both
+of the latter two are available. At the moment the result set contain
+2338 entries. Of course, it depend on volunteers including both
+correct IMDB and The Internet Archive IDs in the wikipedia articles
+for the movie. It should be noted that the result will include
+duplicates if the movie have entries in several languages. There are
+some bogus entries, either because The Internet Archive ID contain a
+typo or because the movie is not available from The Internet Archive.
+I did not verify the IMDB IDs, as I am unsure how to do that
+automatically.</p>
+
+<p>I wrote a small python script to extract the data set from Wikidata
+and check if the XML metadata for the movie is available from The
+Internet Archive, and after around 1.5 hour it produced a list of 2097
+free movies and their IMDB ID. In total, 171 entries in Wikidata lack
+the refered Internet Archive entry. I assume the 70 "disappearing"
+entries (ie 2338-2097-171) are duplicate entries.</p>
+
+<p>This is not too bad, given that The Internet Archive report to
+contain <a href="https://archive.org/details/feature_films">5331
+feature films</a> at the moment, but it also mean more than 3000
+movies are missing on Wikipedia or are missing the pair of references
+on Wikipedia.</p>
+
+<p>I was curious about the distribution by release year, and made a
+little graph to show how the amount of free movies is spread over the
+years:<p>
+
+<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-10-25-verk-i-det-fri-filmer.png"></p>
+
+<p>I expect the relative distribution of the remaining 3000 movies to
+be similar.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help, and want to ensure Wikipedia can be used to
+cross reference The Internet Archive and The Internet Movie Database,
+please make sure entries like this are listed under the "External
+links" heading on the Wikipedia article for the movie:</p>
-<p>Jeg foretrekker dette scriptet fremfor youtube-dl, som
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">
-nevnt i 2014 støtter NRK</a> og en rekke andre videokilder, på grunn
-av at nrkopptak samler undertekster og video i en enkelt fil, hvilket
-gjør håndtering enklere på disk.</p>
+<p><pre>
+* {{Internet Archive film|id=FightingLady}}
+* {{IMDb title|id=0036823|title=The Fighting Lady}}
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Please verify the links on the final page, to make sure you did not
+introduce a typo.</p>
+
+<p>Here is the complete list, if you want to correct the 171
+identified Wikipedia entries with broken links to The Internet
+Archive: <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1140317">Q1140317</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q458656">Q458656</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q470560">Q470560</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q743340">Q743340</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q822580">Q822580</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q480696">Q480696</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128761">Q128761</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1307059">Q1307059</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1335091">Q1335091</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537166">Q1537166</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1438334">Q1438334</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1479751">Q1479751</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1497200">Q1497200</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1498122">Q1498122</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865973">Q865973</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q834269">Q834269</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q841781">Q841781</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q841781">Q841781</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1548193">Q1548193</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q499031">Q499031</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1564769">Q1564769</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1585239">Q1585239</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1585569">Q1585569</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1624236">Q1624236</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4796595">Q4796595</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4853469">Q4853469</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4873046">Q4873046</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q915016">Q915016</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660396">Q4660396</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4677708">Q4677708</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q880357">Q880357</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q882066">Q882066</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q882066">Q882066</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q204191">Q204191</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q204191">Q204191</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1194170">Q1194170</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q940014">Q940014</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q946863">Q946863</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q172837">Q172837</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573077">Q573077</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1219005">Q1219005</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1219599">Q1219599</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1643798">Q1643798</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1656352">Q1656352</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1659549">Q1659549</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1660007">Q1660007</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1698154">Q1698154</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1737980">Q1737980</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1877284">Q1877284</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199354">Q1199354</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199354">Q1199354</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199451">Q1199451</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1211871">Q1211871</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1212179">Q1212179</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1238382">Q1238382</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4906454">Q4906454</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q320219">Q320219</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1148649">Q1148649</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5050350">Q5050350</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166548">Q5166548</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2677926">Q2677926</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2698139">Q2698139</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1070484">Q1070484</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1080080">Q1080080</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1090813">Q1090813</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1251918">Q1251918</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1254110">Q1254110</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1257070">Q1257070</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q617858">Q617858</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166611">Q5166611</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166611">Q5166611</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q324513">Q324513</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7533269">Q7533269</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q970386">Q970386</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q976849">Q976849</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7458614">Q7458614</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5347416">Q5347416</a>,
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+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5463392">Q5463392</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3038555">Q3038555</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5288458">Q5288458</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2346516">Q2346516</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5183645">Q5183645</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5185497">Q5185497</a>,
+<a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5216127">Q5216127</a>,
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- <title>OpenALPR, find car license plates in video streams - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>When I was a kid, we used to collect "car numbers", as we used to
-call the car license plate numbers in those days. I would write the
-numbers down in my little book and compare notes with the other kids
-to see how many region codes we had seen and if we had seen some
-exotic or special region codes and numbers. It was a fun game to pass
-time, as we kids have plenty of it.</p>
-
-<p>A few days I came across
-<a href="https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr">the OpenALPR
-project</a>, a free software project to automatically discover and
-report license plates in images and video streams, and provide the
-"car numbers" in a machine readable format. I've been looking for
-such system for a while now, because I believe it is a bad idea that the
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition">automatic
-number plate recognition</a> tool only is available in the hands of
-the powerful, and want it to be available also for the powerless to
-even the score when it comes to surveillance and sousveillance. I
-discovered the developer
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/747509">wanted to get the tool into
-Debian</a>, and as I too wanted it to be in Debian, I volunteered to
-help him get it into shape to get the package uploaded into the Debian
-archive.</p>
-
-<p>Today we finally managed to get the package into shape and uploaded
-it into Debian, where it currently
-<a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org//new/openalpr_2.2.1-1.html">waits
-in the NEW queue</a> for review by the Debian ftpmasters.</p>
-
-<p>I guess you are wondering why on earth such tool would be useful
-for the common folks, ie those not running a large government
-surveillance system? Well, I plan to put it in a computer on my bike
-and in my car, tracking the cars nearby and allowing me to be notified
-when number plates on my watch list are discovered. Another use case
-was suggested by a friend of mine, who wanted to set it up at his home
-to open the car port automatically when it discovered the plate on his
-car. When I mentioned it perhaps was a bit foolhardy to allow anyone
-capable of placing his license plate number of a piece of cardboard to
-open his car port, men replied that it was always unlocked anyway. I
-guess for such use case it make sense. I am sure there are other use
-cases too, for those with imagination and a vision.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to build your own version of the Debian package, check
-out the upstream git source and symlink ./distros/debian to ./debian/
-before running "debuild" to build the source. Or wait a bit until the
-package show up in unstable.</p>
+ <title>A one-way wall on the border?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_one_way_wall_on_the_border_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_one_way_wall_on_the_border_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I find it fascinating how many of the people being locked inside
+the proposed border wall between USA and Mexico support the idea. The
+proposal to keep Mexicans out reminds me of
+<a href="http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall">the
+propaganda twist from the East Germany government</a> calling the wall
+the “Antifascist Bulwark” after erecting the Berlin Wall, claiming
+that the wall was erected to keep enemies from creeping into East
+Germany, while it was obvious to the people locked inside it that it
+was erected to keep the people from escaping.</p>
+
+<p>Do the people in USA supporting this wall really believe it is a
+one way wall, only keeping people on the outside from getting in,
+while not keeping people in the inside from getting out?</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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