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Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by m-p-3 »

Majestic121 wrote: post #74
m-p-3 wrote: post #60

I have an IPFS archive available here, feel free to pin it to your node. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRHpZXaUJS5Mc4P2xG6yLckHKsY88BASLLWz7Q...

It seems that links all point to the original website, not an IPFS copy. As a result, you'd still lose a lot of content, for example all the images stored in imgur. Is there a way to solve this ?

The goal of the archive was to keep anything from inside reddit (submission links, comments) available with the smallest footprint possible. (compressed 80MB, decompressed 1.2GB)

I guess you could run the archive tool with some extra parameters to grab external content, but it will substantially increase the archive size.

Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by klntsky »

morganvachon wrote: post #62
klntsky wrote: post #26

/r/Piracy owners deserve it. They should've considered such a possibility before allowing their community to grow on a platform they do not control. So they are not "victims", just a bit inconsiderate. And there is no reason to blame reddit, or anyone, for the deletion. They are not obliged to provide their service to anyone.

I don't go on /r/Piracy, but from my understanding there were already rules in place, and heavily enforced, about not linking to infringing content, and it was supposed to be just a place to discuss piracy. How is simple discussion of a topic infringing at all? How did they deserve this purge? It's exactly this attitude that has a chilling effect on all speech, no matter the subject. You should be ashamed.

> It's exactly this attitude that has a chilling effect on all speech, no matter the subject.

No, it isn't. The lack of precaution and inability to decently set up a forum software is.

Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by lightbyte »

save_ferris wrote: post #73
rel2thr wrote: post #72

I’m surprised reddit let’s the sports stream subreddits stay up. These are kind of going mainstream and must be a huge thorn in the side of cable companies

They started cracking down on the soccer stream subs a few months ago, but I'm not sure why they haven't followed suit on the American sports streams.

That massive ban-wave was pushed by entities such as Sky who don't have an interest in American sports streams

Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by kyriakos »

Not just about piracy but..

This is the usual pattern in online discussion platforms. Start free, advocate for free speech, then figure out you need to make money and you suddenly stop being a rebel and sink down to be the corporate sellout you always preached against. Reddit will eventually be replaced by something else and the cycle continues.

Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by wsgeorge »

Bayart wrote: post #61
supernes wrote: post #59

Can't wait until reddit decides to ban porn as advertiser-unfriendly, à la tumblr. They're heading steadfast in the direction of sanitizing the site until it's nothing but gifs of puppies yawning.

There's something heartwarming about 4chan remaining committed to being absolute cancer.

4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom in (at least) some quarters of the Internet as is possible.

Such freedom seems so essential to Internet culture that, in my opinion, it must be protected.

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Post by walterstucco »

black_puppydog wrote: post #65
schrectacular wrote: post #48

It seems like rights holders have realized that carpet bombing is a cheap and "effective" strategy. There are reports ( https://youtu.be/JwG0bQ7WC3c ) of music copyright holders reporting the use of even a single chord in YouTube videos. This strategy appears to be having a chilling effect across multiple platforms. Copyright claims are super easy to make at scale, but the platforms themselves cannot investigate at s…

After the new EU copyright directive passed parliament, I went on a bit of a hunt for reasons. Outside Germany, we simply didn't get traction for protest. And one reason people gave was "it won't be enforcable anyhow". This here clearly shows what Germans have known for years thanks to our stupid "Abmahnwesen" legal abnormality: enforcement is not the bottleneck when private entities sue other private entities. It wo…

There is a reason: it is called "the right to appeal".

You can appeal to the real justice system and if the platform is wrong it has to pay the legal fees and re-admit the content

Now you simply can't

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Post by lallysingh »

kyriakos wrote: post #84

Not just about piracy but.. This is the usual pattern in online discussion platforms. Start free, advocate for free speech, then figure out you need to make money and you suddenly stop being a rebel and sink down to be the corporate sellout you always preached against. Reddit will eventually be replaced by something else and the cycle continues.

It's a natural movement of power between older and newer generations. As power transfers, the recipients change strategies from attack to defend.

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Post by SiempreViernes »

kyriakos wrote: post #84

Not just about piracy but.. This is the usual pattern in online discussion platforms. Start free, advocate for free speech, then figure out you need to make money and you suddenly stop being a rebel and sink down to be the corporate sellout you always preached against. Reddit will eventually be replaced by something else and the cycle continues.

I'd argue that this is mostly restricted to for profit discussion platforms that only considers monthly users and are otherwise uninterested in community and topic issues.

There are lots of subject matter discussion platforms that never go trough this phase as a natural consequence of having primary concerns that isn't simply growing MAU numbers.

Re: Reddit's /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban

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Post by SiempreViernes »

tsehd wrote: post #66
schrectacular wrote: post #48

It seems like rights holders have realized that carpet bombing is a cheap and "effective" strategy. There are reports ( https://youtu.be/JwG0bQ7WC3c ) of music copyright holders reporting the use of even a single chord in YouTube videos. This strategy appears to be having a chilling effect across multiple platforms. Copyright claims are super easy to make at scale, but the platforms themselves cannot investigate at s…

There seriously should be a law against such "carpet bombing".

The hated copyright directive contains provisions that require the creation of mechanism for challenging wrongful take downs, which if implemented properly would resolve the issue.
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