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Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/7dc4b932-f5d8-4e4a-bfca-34ca66821372.png

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.

onepinksheep ,
@onepinksheep@kbin.social avatar

So basically, according to Reddit, they own everything on Reddit. That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit's responsibility. Bold strategy, cotton. They're basically waiving their net neutrality.

Lorez ,

That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit’s responsibility.

Of course not, from reddit’s ToS: “By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.

You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.” --https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement-september-12-2021

onepinksheep ,
@onepinksheep@kbin.social avatar

That's their TOS. Their actions recently — namely undeleting user posts and comments — run directly counter to their TOS. They're essentially claiming ownership of the user submitted content by doing that.

Lorez ,

They’re essentially claiming ownership of the user submitted content by doing that.

Reddit reserves all the rights to everything you post ("When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, etc., etc.), but you alone are responsible for it (“Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.”).

NuclearWeapon ,
@NuclearWeapon@ioc.exchange avatar

@Lorez "Yes your honor, user ******* gave me all this content and I'm making money out of it, but I have nothing to do with it. I swear"

yukichigai ,
@yukichigai@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, didn’t figure they’d go so blatantly mask off this early on. They must be nervous.

Also dumb. Have they never dealt with pirates before? Cut off one head and two more grow to replace it. Good luck you shmucks.

Lightor ,

We’ll just tell the pirates that what they’re doing is wrong and they’ll stop right? Right?

ethane ,

Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it'll take them time and effort to do so.

lka1988 ,

They can restore the bot accounts, sure, but they can’t restore the servers that run those bot accounts.

riskable ,
@riskable@kbin.social avatar

Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL

VeeSilverball ,
@VeeSilverball@kbin.social avatar

Coming soon: rebranding /r/piracy to "pirate cosplay"

Iconoclast ,

r/piracy after the IPO: piracy is unethical as it is stealing from the poor (companies). This is a community to discuss how to stop piracy and become responsible and dutiful consumers.

XiELEd ,
@XiELEd@lemmy.world avatar

“dutiful consumers” kinda icks me lol

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.

frozengriever ,

Also worth flooding them with links a map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴‍☠️ flag still flies high.

primaryuser ,

Bonus points if they’re Nintendo games!

NoIWontPickaName ,

why magnet links in particular?

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

I mean could be any link to copyright material but I generally grab magnet links so shrug

nusirojonel ,

That was enough to get me to officially sign up here.

arkcom ,
@arkcom@kbin.social avatar

Obvious that this is automated and will be going out to all subs. They definitely wouldn't go to bat to keep a piracy sub open, unless they're even dumber than I thought.

db0 OP ,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

automated message, sure. But they demoded just me, which is obviously very exact.

cavemeat ,

Well, what lovely timing to abandon ship

Sal ,
@Sal@mander.xyz avatar

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done

vinceman ,

This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I’m sure everything will go fantastic.

bootyberrypancakes ,
@bootyberrypancakes@lemmywinks.xyz avatar

Reddit will sure be a lovely site in a few months…

PB-and-Jon ,

I'm sad to see what has happened to the community I've been a part of for the better part of my life.

infinitevalence ,
@infinitevalence@discuss.online avatar

May their shareholders weep.

hemmes ,
@hemmes@lemmy.one avatar

If you take away what the people want

You’re gonna have a bad time. ⛷️

EcstaticHumility ,
@EcstaticHumility@lemmy.one avatar

I had a good hearty laugh thanks to your comment.

CrimsonOnoscopy ,
@CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org avatar

[removed by reddit]

simin ,

lol yeah

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