King to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoReddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop.torrentfreak.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkReddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop.torrentfreak.comKing to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareMNByChoice@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up27·edit-21 year agoWeird. Guess Reddit needs to put more resources into moderation. Edit: Finished reading article, and it may be slightly more complicated than that, but not by much.
minus-squaremeseek #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoWhen 99% of you mods are unpaid volunteers, as is your business model, that may prove a bit challenging.
minus-squaregk99@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoI mean, not really. They had it working out great for years. Then they killed the API.
minus-squareshagie@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoCopyright DMCA filings never went to the mods. Those are legal requests and not handling properly can be a nightmare complete with lawyers. Those requests went via https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new - no volunteer mods or API requests involved.
minus-squareContend6248@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIf it was only the API, they showed them the stinky finger, bold move.
Weird. Guess Reddit needs to put more resources into moderation.
Edit: Finished reading article, and it may be slightly more complicated than that, but not by much.
When 99% of you mods are unpaid volunteers, as is your business model, that may prove a bit challenging.
I mean, not really. They had it working out great for years.
Then they killed the API.
Copyright DMCA filings never went to the mods. Those are legal requests and not handling properly can be a nightmare complete with lawyers.
Those requests went via https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new - no volunteer mods or API requests involved.
If it was only the API, they showed them the stinky finger, bold move.