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This is oftentimes a clone of the r/pirating awesome piracy repo. At times, i just go along editing a little too many links from the collection, and it becomes something else. Over the r/pirating couple of years, r/pirating, I've accumulated bookmarks, saved Reddit posts, and GitHub stars all related to piracy in some form or another.

It seems like rights holders have realized that carpet bombing is a cheap and "effective" strategy. 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 scale, meaning the small guy suffers. Yes, redditers who are truly infringing should have their posts removed, but the result of trigger-happy, likely bot controled complaints is having an effect on legal speech. 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.

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Even if you've never used Reddit , you've no doubt heard of it; it's one of the largest sites in the US , and with more than 2 million "subreddits," it has a stunning depth and breadth of content. With all that activity, it's not surprising that Reddit has become a hub for digital piracy , and the site has struggled with managing copyright violations for several years. With more than , members, it was created in with the mission of being "a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy," according to its own description. That you can find discussions of the vulnerabilities of piracy laws on Reddit is unsurprising. Given the subject matter, the piracy subreddit attempts to thread a particularly precarious needle. According to the rules of the subreddit, "submissions must be related to the discussion of digital piracy. Reddit has been attempting to address piracy on its platform for several years, with serious efforts to mitigate copyright infringement beginning around Policing it is extraordinarily difficult. In Reddit's transparency reporting , it's clear that the platform has been increasing its content monitoring exponentially. In , Reddit received 9, copyright notices, which resulted in 26, content removals. In , Reddit received 34, copyright notices, which resulted in , content removals — nearly five times that of the year before.

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Even if you've never used Reddit , you've no doubt heard of it; it's one of the largest sites in the US , and with more than 2 million "subreddits," it has a stunning depth and breadth of content. With all that activity, it's not surprising that Reddit has become a hub for digital piracy , and the site has struggled with managing copyright violations for several years. With more than , members, it was created in with the mission of being "a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy," according to its own description. That you can find discussions of the vulnerabilities of piracy laws on Reddit is unsurprising. Given the subject matter, the piracy subreddit attempts to thread a particularly precarious needle.

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Now, those early actions have swelled up into multiple bans across similar subreddits, marking a new push by the platform to rid itself of copyright-violating users. Thanks to a series of copyright cases recently filed in the United States, companies now have greater leverage when it comes to taking action against repeat offenders. The group regularly linked out to external sites that hosted illegal streams of copyrighted films and shows.

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The internet is a funny place. This seems like a direct knock on effect of the ridiculous asymmetry in legal liability. This is the usual pattern in online discussion platforms. Coupons Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. But between the public domain and the moment cultural artefacts are created is a vast gap where copyright shields everything from those acts, even when nobody is monetizing it, and when all that stands between losing it forever and maintaining it for future generations is a couple of pirates who ripped a copy at an opportune moment. I hope people from internet archive is storing everything. I'm sure you have a very coherent argument for how platforms can do any sensible sort of censorship at all without collaborating with the IP holders, at which point the I can picture it It symobilizes a website link url. Travel Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. This list is periodically mirrored to PasteBin.

Reddit is trying to clean-up its act — and it's taking on illegal streaming in a big way.

Usenet Indexers. This is a rather strange take considering how large and quality the cultural music, movies, tv, games, books, art, etc communities are in the pirating scene. Reddit, like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, simply grew too much outside of its original intention. Socialized healthcare while it has its own problems for sure will not follow the same rules. Which means we're mot even dealing with middle-men anymore, just pure copyright trolls. Asooka on April 8, prev [—] Good. No one thought it would be huge - it was just fun. I can picture it Everything you need to get started on your pirate voyage can be found below. The latter is what I take issue with.