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Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do they know what qualifies as "encrypted" vs a binary blob that could be a photo or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

File headers, magic bits, all sorts of stuff. Plus you can (and they do) try to load common file types, so if a PNG isn't loading correctly, it fails the test.