Filenames dont work

Risk Your PC’s Health for a Song?

This is stupid, and once again proves that filenames don’t work when it comes to the distribution of static data files. Instead, a legitamite publisher should directly link to the file using its hash.

Again, given a hash, there is theoretically only one origional file that represents it. Thus, the publisher can almost guarantee that the file downloaded by the subscriber is legitamite.

Why are so many people stupid?

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