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HPR4181: Downloading out of copyright movies


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Downloading out of
copyright movies

Hi my name is Bob. I've commented a few times, but this is my first

episode.

I'm using text to speech as suggested by Beeza

in episode hpr4167 ::
Removing another obstacle to recording an HPR show but using
piper from hpr4172 ::
Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis by Archer72.

For this tutorial I suggest how it might be possible to use tor browser to download

difficult to find public domain works.

As well as letting you browse privately, it also enables a SOCKS Proxy which other

applications can use.

Wikipedia maintains a list of List

of films in the public domain in the United States.

I found out about this list after reading Copyright

in Zombies, Vampires, Frankenstein and More!.

Once you have ensured that it's perfectly legal do download the movie

in your Jurisdiction, then use tor to go to duck duck go video
search.

In our hypothetical scenario, say we wanted to download Night

of the Living Dead, released in 1968 by Director George A. Romero
and came out of copyright in 1968 due to "Missing copyright notice and
errors from the distributor." From List
of films in the public domain in the United States Night of the
Living Dead entered the public domain because the original theatrical
distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, neglected to place a
copyright indication on the prints. In 1968, United States copyright law
required a proper notice for a work to maintain a copyright"

This is why there are so many variations on zombie movies.

In the example ok.ru is the site hosting the movie, and it has a link

of https://ok.ru/video/foo_bar

It would be simple enough to just point yt-dlp - A feature-rich

command-line audio/video downloader, to the url and download it.

You could also take advantage of the fact that yt-dlp supports a SOCKS

proxy.

--proxy URL
Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme, e.g. socks5://user:[email protected]:1080/. Pass in an empty st9ring (--proxy "") for direct connection

So if you were to run

yt-dlp --proxy socks5://localhost:9150 https://ok.ru/video/foo_bar
it would download the movie via tor.

I am in no way condoning the downloading of illegal material, and am

not suggesting in any way that you do so.

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