After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy 134
davidshenba writes In the wake of leaked private photos of celebrities, 4chan has added Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown policy to its rules and policies. Under this new policy, the site will remove any notified and verified "infringement." It is not clear how effective this could be, or how 4chan is going to handle the inflow of notifications to restrict the content provided by users.
April's Fools Early? (Score:5, Insightful)
When I saw this I had to make sure it wasn't April 1st and that the article wasn't from The Onion.
Doesn't this pretty much kill 4chan? (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought the whole purpose of 4chan was that "anything goes".
If they start censoring it then all the people that are there will just move somewhere else that is not restricted.
Re:Doesn't this pretty much kill 4chan? (Score:5, Insightful)
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This probably won't work. (Score:4, Insightful)
This probably won't work, because either:
1) The influx of content will overwhelm 4Chan's very few mods.
2) Trolls will flag every single image and overwhelm 4Chan's very few mods.
3) 4Chan's very few mods will not care.
Re:Doesn't this pretty much kill 4chan? (Score:4, Insightful)
This. So basically 5 minutes until 4chan popularises a link to software which subtly changes an image to change the hash and other identifying features.
You're welcome, Internet.