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NEWS: One Piece's Newest Episode Leaked Before Japan's Debut

vtr9kvictor wrote:

You guys do realize that hacking into a secure website like this, for any reason, by any means (even if as someone said "he just guessed") is illegal right? Whoever this was HAS VIOLATED THE LAW. He needs to be prosecuted, not thanked, not ignored. BUT SENT TO JAIL.

You do realize that typing in a URL that leads to a file that is publicly accessible is not hacking right? You said secured, but it wasn't secured, it was on a public server.

It got officially reported in the media as a "hack". The debating won't change it otherwise now.

(A)ny attempt to forbid the practice of deep linking is based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and threatens to undermine the functioning of the Web as a whole. The two chief reasons for this are:

• A Web Address ("URI," or "URL") is just an identifier. There is a clear distinction between identifying a resource on the Web and accessing it; suppressing the use of identifiers is not logically consistent.
  
• It is entirely reasonable for owners of Web resources to control access to them. The Web provides several mechanisms for doing this, none of which rely on hiding or suppressing identifiers for those resources.

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Two analogies have been proposed to help illuminate the question of deep linking through parallels in the real world.

The first analogy is with buildings, which typically have a number of doors. A building might have a policy that the public may only enter via the main front door, and only during normal working hours. People employed in the building and in making deliveries to it might use other doors as appropriate. Such a policy would be enforced by a combination of security personnel and mechanical devices such as locks and pass-cards. One would not enforce this policy by hiding some of the building entrances, nor by requesting legislation requiring the use of the front door and forbidding anyone to reveal the fact that there are other doors to the building.

The second analogy is with a library, which has a well-known street address. Each book on the shelves of this library also has an identifier, composed of its title, author, call number, shelf location, and so on. The library certainly will exercise access control to the individual books; but it would be counterproductive to do so by forbidding the publication of their identities.

These analogies are compelling in the context of the deep linking issue. A provider of Web resources who does not make use of the built-in facilities of the Web to control access to a resource is unlikely to achieve either justice or a good business outcome by attempting to suppress information about the existence of the resource.

All you people laying the blame on Funimation are making me a bit ill. Seriously. You’re the kind of asswipes that honestly believes a woman deserves to be raped simply because she’s wearing a short skirt aren’t you?

A more accurate analogy would be that a stranger walked up to Funimation’s server and asked if it wanted to fudge, and it said yes. When Funimation found out about this, it got angry about how people thought its server was a slut and so started claiming that the server was raped and grounded the server for a while. Now as it turns out, the stranger happened to record itself having (consensual) sex with Funimation’s server and released the video on the internet, without the server’s knowledge. This part was illegal (as with all fansubs), but the sex itself was not.

It's typical for any big business to try and save face over a total embarrassment like this. FUNimation is no different. I'm no stranger to FUNimation's "face saving" measures in the past. Dragon Ball Z fans can relate.

I want to explicitly point out the fact that nothing was decrypted, no logins or passwords were required, it was as simple as issuing an HTTP GET command on a URL.

Indeed, and that's exactly why trying to prove that it was a hack by referring to official statements by FUNimation is stupidity at its finest.

Based on what people have said Funimation has been the good guy so far in not restricting how you can access those episodes. This will probably no longer be the case going forward.

Indeed, and that's exactly why trying to prove that it was a hack by referring to official statements by FUNimation is stupidity at its finest.

Maybe it is time to close this thread. We're going around in circles over the definition of "hacking".

But isn't that a major part of the argument? People are saying that they could just walk right in while other said they had to d-code like Paramore. Its a big part of the issue.