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Old 06-17-2011, 11:48 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by acrylix View Post
So program the hundreds of thousands of accounts to randomly vote each other up, while also randomly voting everyone else down.
what about page view
what about how long the video is played
or 100 other characteristics you could use to filter these types of bogus files from the system.

you start botting accounts to stream the entire video as a fake user

and you cross the line into DDoS attacks.

those are very hard to sustain both technologically and because laws allow you to bypass normal privacy rights when they can document (using the traffic allocation) that what it is.
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