<h1 id="downloading-out-of-copyright-movies">Downloading out of
copyright movies</h1>
<p>Hi my name is Bob. I've commented a few times, but this is my first
episode.</p>
<p>I'm using text to speech as suggested by <a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0246.html">Beeza</a>
in episode <a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4167/index.html">hpr4167 ::
Removing another obstacle to recording an HPR show</a> but using
<code>piper</code> from <a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4172/index.html">hpr4172 ::
Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis</a> by <a
href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0318.html">Archer72</a>.</p>
<p>For this tutorial I suggest how it might be possible to use <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/download/">tor</a> browser to download
difficult to find public domain works.</p>
<p>As well as letting you browse privately, it also enables a <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS">SOCKS Proxy</a> which other
applications can use.</p>
<p>Wikipedia maintains a list of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States">List
of films in the public domain in the United States</a>.</p>
<p>I found out about this list after reading <a
href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/10/24/copyright-zombies-vampires-frankenstein-more/">Copyright
in Zombies, Vampires, Frankenstein and More!</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In our hypothetical scenario, say we wanted to download <a
href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Night+of+the+Living+Dead+1968+site%3Aok.ru&amp;t=ffab&amp;iax=videos&amp;ia=videos">Night
of the Living Dead</a>, 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 <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States">List
of films in the public domain in the United States</a> 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"</p>
<p>This is why there are so many variations on zombie movies.</p>
<p>In the example ok.ru is the site hosting the movie, and it has a link
of <a
href="https://ok.ru/video/foo_bar">https://ok.ru/video/foo_bar</a></p>
<p>It would be simple enough to just point <a
href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp">yt-dlp</a> - A feature-rich
command-line audio/video downloader, to the url and download it.</p>
<p>You could also take advantage of the fact that <a
href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp">yt-dlp</a> supports a SOCKS
proxy.</p>
<pre><code>--proxy URL
    Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy.  To enable SOCKS proxy, specify a proper scheme, e.g.  socks5://user:pass@127.0.0.1:1080/.  Pass in an empty st9ring (--proxy &quot;&quot;) for direct connection</code></pre>
<p>So if you were to run
<code>yt-dlp --proxy socks5://localhost:9150 https://ok.ru/video/foo_bar</code>
it would download the movie via tor.</p>
<p>I am in no way condoning the downloading of illegal material, and am
not suggesting in any way that you do so.</p>
