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Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-imagine-what-will-get-uploaded dept.

Spamicles writes "The guys over at the Pirate Bay have launched a new, censorship-free image hosting website called BayImg. Users of the new service don't have to sign-up in order to upload images. However, they can assign a 'removal code' to uploaded images, in case they want to delete the files after a while, and tags to categorize images. BayImg currently supports 100+ file formats, and supports uploading Zip and Rar archives. The maximum file size of uploads is 100MB. The article also discusses TPB's plans for launching a video streaming service that will potentially compete with YouTube."

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  1. well... by wpegden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People are going to like them a whole lot less if this turns into a big child porn site.

    1. Re:well... by Goaway · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Oh, so by "uncensored" they meant "just about as censored as always"?

      Well, I guess they might survive a little longer, then.

    2. Re:well... by computational+super · · Score: 4, Insightful
      As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here

      Isn't that, er, the definition of censorship? Censorship = Banned by such-and-such government, ergo illegal? By this logic, over-the-air radio and television is "censorship free", even in China, since they're broadcasting anything they want as long as it's legal.

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    3. Re:well... by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Depends.

      In England 17 is legal. The legal age varies a lot. In some countries it is higher- in some countries it is lower.

      The model's apparent age varies a lot too. How can you trust what looks like a 14 year old isn't really an under developed or made up 18 year old?

      And it just needs to be enough to get them into court so they have to spend money defending themselves. Heck, in some cases you can arrest them and force them to post bail and can hold them for months if they can't post bail.

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    4. Re:well... by AdmiralWeirdbeard · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Restricting images for legality is different than censoship in the common parlance. censored for appropriateness of content, or type of image, or anything else that the various previously existing hosting site censor for is an invasive filtering that goes a level above simply saying, "hey please dont upload anything illegal." And given what the pirate bay does, i think we can safely assume that they're concerned less with the minutae of libelous or offensive images than not going to jail as part of a kiddie-porn ring.
      saying "we're going to censor your images so we dont go to jail" is totally ok in a way that saying "we're going to censor your images for things we dont like" is not.

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    5. Re:well... by MBGMorden · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes but that kinda defeats the point.

      As another poster mentioned would this mean much if "The Chinese Pirate Bay" opened it's "uncensored" and couldn't show a picture of the Taiwanese flag?

      Or if "The Iranian Pirate Bay" opened the "uncensored" site that couldn't show a boob?

      Uncensored generally means unrestricted. If you're doing it as a way of promoting freedom from an oppressive government, then saying "We're only gonna leave uncensored what the government will let us." doesn't really do much. I could have done that without the help of a new and nifty website.

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    6. Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      By "uncensored", they mean "we don't care if it's copyrighted by someone else", of course. It's The Pirate Bay, not hard to figure this one out.

  2. TOR by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Publish the date, time and ip address of every upload. No censorship.

    Post it via TOR or some anonymizer. Unless they ban all IP associated with such tools (which even sites under dedicated troll assault like 4chan can't do), that's no guarantee for the hardcore.

    Still, it's an idea that I find amusing for deterring the casual bad actor.

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  3. Re:TPB Are Theives by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally, I am siding with my morals here, TPB is legal, but wrong.

    That's funny, I'm siding with my morals here too. Free copying is illegal, but moral. Scarcity is a great evil, if it can be abolished it must.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:I don't get it by Hatta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could someone please indulge me as to why there is such a dire focus on child pornography?

    When people have children something hormonal happens to their brains that makes them lose all perspective when children are involved. Think of how irrational your parents were? I remember one time when my younger brother got a ride home and didn't call. He was less than an hour late, and my dad made me drive around with him looking for my brothers body in ditches at the side of the road.

    It's the Helena Lovejoy effect. Saying "think of the children" makes people revert to emotional thinking and makes them easier to manipulate. So it follows that if you're trying to grab power, appealing to the safety of children will make people fall in line.

    Personally it works the other way on me. Any proposal put forth "for the children", I automatically assume is bullshit. After all, if it had real merit they wouldn't need to manipulate us into going along with it. If someone involved in neuropsychology is looking for a good thesis, pinpointing exactly what is causing this effect would be wonderful.

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  6. Re:TPB Are Theives by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean replicators? That would be fantastic. No one would ever have to work again.

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  7. Re:TPB Are Theives by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't the point of advancement to make our lives easier? If we just fill that time with more work it becomes a rat race, a tread mill. I don't want to live in that kind of world. The dream is 100% unemployment, 100% leisure time. If we can enjoy good food and drink and family and have a roof over our heads at no cost to anyone, why would we need a job? If people want to engage in productive behavior, and I'm certain most would as it's in our nature, that's wonderful. But eliminating scarcity would free us from the tyrrany of having to work merely to survive.

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