One of the pirate tv/movie streaming websites I look at from time to time also switched from storing their videos directly in googledocs to encrypting it first. Couple of years ago they simply used unlisted YT uploads for their pirated material. Talk about zero cost hosting.
I noticed a very interesting method one used recently where they stored video segments (2-5MB) on google with the extension ".text.png". Interestingly the files have valid PNG headers.
On google as in on one of the various google hosting services or something less intened-by-google like stuffing data in the "image" and somehow getting it cached by the crawler?
The dude ventures out to torrent a video, gets interested, and then in conclusion wants to tell Google engineers where he found it ??????????? That's great ass covering on the end bit there.
These sites are used to takedowns, whether it be because the Google account got banned or abuse was detected. Pointing out a segment is not going to change anything, if I can find this a hundred Google engineers can
I would think the pirate site would be unable to parse the data it wants from the 4MB 1x1 PNG because of cross-origin restrictions. Anyone know how that works?
"Unfortunately most common desktop players do not allow you to customize the cookies and headers sent with your request." I would have thought to set up a proxy and then to connect VLC to the proxy server.
They also mention encrypted servers. Can VLC make these authentication with your own keys?
