first, if i'm understanding this correctly, the main issue with allowing password protected uploads, is the problem of dealing with piracy of the pirated content by other piracy sites. π->you thief! who me?<--π
well, to me it sounds like irony did a backflip, and got the score of a perfect 10 from the jusdges. π
but to the point...
Kiaqi an Idea could be:
in Release-PW is a link to Community Forum to a separate Category,
where an uploader can post his PW for the upload.
reply or new post for every new one so you can link it
or similar, maybe someone has a better solution for the Forum-post.
i'm sorry my english suck, and i fail to understamd what the idea is....
here's what i think i understood from your idea...
"a separate category for password protcted files"...now before i continue with my interpretation of your idea, i think this tecnical change that requieres [Login to see the link] to create a whole new category, and then we still need to have mod's for it. that a big operation for the site to undergo...but who knows. moving on...
Kiaqi where an uploader can post his PW for the upload.
that part is clear.
Kiaqi reply or new post for every new one so you can link it
means that every downloader gets a unique link? or that only if the user spams the post than the link is revealed?
well,unique uploads tied to the downloder, is technically also big programmatic problem, for a lot of reasons, but who knows...
as for the solution of replying or just spamming the comments scetion of the post, it's again a site change that need to be done by the programmers, and does not solve the issue of piracy.
Kiaqi the point is, in that Forum-Post you have other options.
first only registered users can see links,
it's a no brainer registering to the site, even if you just mean to leech the uploads.
Kiaqi you could set in a spoiler, what only opens, when a thank or like is pushed.
that's a good idea, but that too can be automated by the leecher.
Kiaqi you could limit further to only t1 if this would not be enough, but would try it before.
again, as it easy for the leecher to register to the site, it's also easy enough to get T1.
the qurstion are we trying to fight piracy? or just make sure that credit goes to who'm it's due?
as someone who came here for the pirated content i ain't going to be the one who suggest how to fight itπ
the credit battle however, that could be simple enough against the auto copy-posters,by simply including a file with the credit inside the archive,that could be any file, from txt, to bitmap, or any kind that will match the upload in first glance, which auto copy-posters don't do. if the problem is the auto copy-posters, than the uploaders credit is given, and there's the side effect of shaming the piracy site who leeched the content, when it's downloaded by their visitors.
that being said, if the copy-posters arre human, who check the content of the zip and root out anything that does not belog there, than theres nothing that can be done. but in such a case the content wil be pirated anyway, when the uploader posts the password.
btw, every now and then, appear on a piracy site a discussion on how to fight piracy... after years i can say with at most certainty, that those who know...
don't play along. π