But the the greedy capitalists are the ones you’d need to buy the rights from if you wanted to do this above board. Typically a company will only either sell you a license that lets you stream it to your customers, with requirements to make the film unavailable if your license is revoked, or the company will sell you DVDs, and let you sell those as is with no rights to rip or otherwise make the DVD available for download. It’s not impossible, GoG sells some pretty big name video game titles DRM free, and you could probably get smaller independent films onto the platform, but I doubt true media giants like Warner Bros or Disney would go for it. You’d have to target movies too obscure to be on Netflix basically.

One of the main differences between hashing and encrypting is that encryption is réversible by some means, while hashing isn’t. The irreversibility is what makes it so ideal for storing a password in a way that definitely can’t be used to get the original password back, even if someone steals the whole database with the passwords in it.

Those companies that ask for specific characters might be encrypting the passwords, but they definitely aren’t hashing them.

I don’t see how filtering by karma combats bots whose whole job is to farm karma. Wouldn’t that just filter new bots until one of their posts takes off in some other community that does allow new accounts to post?