YSK: Do NOT leave it running for more than 12 hours, otherwise your account will be blocked.

[tot-cib]

After running it for more than 12 hours uninterruptedly, I received an email saying "High account activity on Pluralsight" and my account got 403'd. I think it would be useful if a warning was displayed at the start of the script, for awareness purposes.

[p0lux]

Currently the script running since 1549 min and I have no problem with my account

[nocomputeruser]

Happened to me last night on one of my accounts.

[Bigemul]

How much courses did you download in 12 hours ? I guess it depends on that. I got banned but you shouldn't worry too much about that.

[nocomputeruser]

I want to say maybe 4-5. I did start it and just let it run over night.

Thank you. Austin Barber

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How much courses did you download in 12 hours ? I guess it depends on that. I got banned but you shouldn't worry too much about that.

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[Bigemul]

When I run more than 1 instance, I get banned sooner. How many instances were running at the same time ?

[LevChar]

Hi guys, I played with the speeds a little bit, my current setup is:

SLEEP_INTERVAL = 50 # minimum sleep time (s) SLEEP_OFFSET = 100 # set random sleep time (s) up to SLEEP_PLAYLIST = 50 # sleep time (s) between playlist requests RATE_LIMIT = 5000 # download rate (kb/s)

I managed to download 4 courses and after that got banned, I received the following mail from them:

Your account has been blocked from accessing the Pluralsight platform. If this is your first warning, please contact support@pluralsight.com and we will unblock your account when you acknowledge our Terms of Use. If you have received multiple warnings, please contact support@pluralsight.com and we can advise you on remediating the suspicious activity we are detecting on your account. To protect the integrity of the platform for all users, Pluralsight systems monitor and impose automated blocks when situations such as unusual usage, potential account sharing, or possible content scraping are detected.     Thank you, Pluralsight Support

what u suggest doing? send them mail that I don't know what they talking about or open another account?

thnx

[nocomputeruser]

I just had one instance running.

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[rojter-tech]

@LevChar Interesting :). I've got a "Cease and Desist" letter a couple of weeks ago were Pluralsights piracy agent threatened me by "legal actions" if I did not removed this repository. A couple of hours before that mail was recieved my LinkedIn was visited by employes from Pluralsight and the piracy agent company.

Appearently they are very much aware of this exploit and updated their infomation accordingly to that.

[Tarydium]

@rojter-tech And what will be your response? this repo got forket many times, what's the matter if you comply with the cease and desist letter? a lots of courses are being shared on torrent trackers. they opened april for free but people abuse and download nonstop. the authors must receive some kind of compensation but i think treatening with legal action is not the right step.

[rojter-tech]

@Tarydium I did answer the following. I responded the actual CEO of Piracy Solution LLC:

Dear Kelly,

It has come to my knowledge that you have noticed "my software" that can be used to circumvent your technological protection measures. Well, this information is originating from you so it should not be a big surprise that I have this knowledge if you get this reply.

I would like to suggest that you give me lifetime premium access and I promise to fulfil all your request. I could do more than that. I could clear out all traces of the instructions from all other places on the web that was not mentioned in these two letters that I received from your organization.

If you are willing to cooperate regarding this issue, I’m sure we could have an agreement.

Regards Daniel Reuter

It was a direct reply from the following message:

Hello,

Cease and Desist

Hello,

Piracy Solution, LLC. Is the authorized agent for Pluralsight, LLC., Pluralsight.com, Digitaltutors.com, Trainsignal.com, Codeschool.com and Trainsimple.com. It has come to our knowledge that you are violating our copyright using https://github.com/rojter-tech/pluradl.py this describes how to circumvent our technological protection measures. Please remove https://github.com/rojter-tech/pluradl.py from Github to prevent further action. We are requesting that you not put up or link Decrypt Pluralsight videos into .mp4 format in the future. Please remove it as soon as possible and cease violating our copyrighted content Notify me as soon as the removal is complete so that I may verify our content has been removed.

If you wish to contact Piracy Solution, LLC. or Pluralsight, LLC. to confirm the legitimacy of this request, please use the contact information listed below:

Matthew Tenney

Legal Counsel
Pluralsight LLC. www.pluralsight.com 182 North Union Ave. Farmington, UT. 84025 USA Email: pluralsight@piracysolution.com

Evidence of copyright and original material can be found at the listed URL: https://www.pluralsight.com/terms section 5 https://www.pluralsight.com/browse https://www.pluralsight.com/digitaltutors https://www.trainsignal.com https://www.codeschool.com/learn http://www.trainsimple.com signature for word doc

Kelly Manley Authorized agent Anti-Piracy Pluralsight.com CEO Piracy Solution LLC. www.piracysolution.com
8392 County Road 39 NW Annandale, MN 55302

Please contact us if you have any questions. We will look forward to hearing from you.