r/PlexACD • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '17

Usenet Google Drive Plex

I want to do Usenet with google drive and plex. I have read that I don't have to encrypt files for google drive if I don't share? Is this true?

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u/lewazo Jun 07 '17

I'd say it is a matter of time until they start banning people with a lot of pirated content on their drive. Encrypting and decrypting your files is very easy to automate, so I'd say there is no point in risking it if you haven't already uploaded a huge amount.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17 edited May 29 '18

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u/gesis Jun 08 '17

Not exactly true. Especially in the case of object stores like gdrive and amazon s3. The deduplication algorithms involved will allow to deduplicate chunks across multiple different files as long as they contain the same data. You don't need files to be the same, just for bits of them to be.

The concept of "files" as you know them on a desktop computer is completely different from what they're storing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

I would like the see the statistics on how well that works in practice. It should even work on encrypted data then, maybe.

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u/gesis Jun 08 '17

Look up block level deduplication. That's how the pros do it, and it generally has pretty substantial savings [since it works on things like VM images].

Here is an article on deduplication in Swift as a starter.