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r/NoSleep, One of the Largest Subreddits On Reddit, Goes Dark In IP-Theft Protest 53

Posted by BeauHD from the spreading-awareness dept.
Fortran IV writes: In an attempt to "start a conversation" about copyright and IP theft, one of the largest subreddits on Reddit.com, the horror sub r/NoSleep, has gone private for a week. NoSleep, with nearly 14 million subscribers, is one of the largest collections of horror fiction on the internet; MIT used it to train an AI system to write horror stories. Authors retain copyright to all stories on NoSleep, but piracy remains an ongoing problem, so the moderators have elected to shutter the sub from 02/24/2020 to 03/02/2020 to draw attention to the issue.
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  • 03022020 - 02242020 = 780,000.

    #780000 in RGB is Dark Red.

  • I'll have to go back reading Star Trek Doctor Who Hentai mashup fanfic for the week.

  • This looks to be a continuation of SomethingAwful and Chan content being stolen/reused/updated/etc. for purposes that were not originally intended or considered. What's the difference here?

    There's nothing special about /r/NoSleep as far as this phenomenon is concerned, I think. I expect anything with a critical mass of readership can end up being used for *something*.

  • If you need a redditor's spoopy story check /r/Thetruthishere - it's better anyway, the 3rd rule is "Post must be true." /r/nosleep always struck me as a club for for folks who fashion themselves the next R.L. Stine.
  • So they block their own audience from reading and posting things, drawing traffic to the pirates who still have the content up ok let me know how it goes

  • NoSleep just went to sleep

  • I occasionally read the highest rated r/nosleep stories. And sometimes I think that they could be the basis of a cool and original scary movie. I would find it normal that in such case the IP of the original author is honoured.

  • The only ones who can use it are rich people and corporations, normal people will be drowned in coroporate lawyers if they protest against a corp stealing their art. Better to just cancel the whole thing for good. Ofcourse that the US would never do it since it would ruin one of their strongest power bases.

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  • People are mostly going to be paying attention to pandemic and markets for the next week or two.
  • People will just wait a week for it to open it back up unless the subreddit owner feels the protest is not enough.

  • How many times does reality have have to punch them in the face, before they realize that the concept of ownership cannot be appied to lnformation and ideas?

    Look, in essence you are bitching about the world telling each other your secret, after you literally told your secret to the whole world!
    Yes, it is not OK for others to make money off of telling people your secret. For that same reason that it not OK for *you* to.do that!
    It is only OK to take money for *working*! Not for the resulting work! Don't tell

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