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After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy
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.
When I saw this I had to make sure it wasn't April 1st and that the article wasn't from The Onion.
Can we expect 4Chan DMCA compliance to be just like hmm... 4Chan?
So is 4chan going to hack 4chan for supporting the man?
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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.
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Image board like 4chan don't permanent host data. On the quick moving boards, images are gone before someone even could type up a DMCA request. Maybe they'll prevent that picture being posted again. I wonder how their members are going to react to new censorship.
This doesn't have much to do with /b/
it is more about /tv/ and other boards
He really couldn't care less about them.
There is an auto-ban for unsavoury content that has been expanded to it.
Most people will see 4chan and think all of these images are there forever, but they don't understand things vanish after so long, depending on the speed of the board. (RIP marked for deletion (old))
Now that they have a legal page with DMCA, they can't do shit to the site, even though almost all posters know how to get around the filter by adding pixels, changing hue, sat, literally anything with the picture will break it because it is an exact match algorithm, not something similar to the dupe-detectors you see on places like some Usenet groups that hash thumbnails. (I did suggest this to him, but he never added it because lolmootcoding)
Of course, one wonders if moot will cave to even more pressures and implement even more stupid content rules, similar to the examples seen with the hilarious UK nanny filters over the past few years.
Only time will tell.
Not that I care. The site has been dead since 2006 onwards. Even the smaller boards are being harassed by the massive influx of the new, shitty internet generation. Fuck Phones.
4chan, a website built entirely on user submission, whose main bread and butter is the spreading of potentially copyrighted material (e.g. photos of celebrities, pop culture stuff, etc...) is now going to allow the content industry to troll it's thousands (millions?) of posts and slap some DMCA notices?
Given that DMCA is thrown around for a blurred picture of a musicians toe. They're looking to gain more publicity through offending content, lawyers salaries, and the Streisand Effect. It's a bold move, lets see how it works for them.
Well with the ephemeral nature of 4chan posts, it seems like this is more of a technicality than anything. The big boards are pretty fast, so posts are automatically wiped after a few hours at most. Infringing content will probably be off the site by the time a content owner's lawyers have time to fire off an email. On slower boards, they can be up for days or maybe even months, but I doubt anyone would bother sending a DMCA for something on, for example, the papercraft board.
All in all, it's probably just for moot to cover his ass and claim safe harbor, especially since content usually deletes itself in a few hours. Most of the time, he won't have to even do a thing.
Then Encyclopedia Dramatica will be the unbiased source on how long they will sarcastically abide the policy before they just trash the hell out of it and forget the whole thing and not care anymore.
Somehow, I don't think this is going to work.
Another arrow in the quiver of the indie game developer looking to silence critique.
> If they start censoring it
Start? They've been censoring discussions about this crusade against gamers rather heavily lately.
They are missing out on all the fun!
We need to post graphic descriptions of each nude photo.
My question: Would such descriptions also be subject to a DMCA take-down.?
The legal owner of the copyright is most likely the person who took the picture, either the celebrity herself in the case of a selfie, or her boyfriend for non-selfies.
4. Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address;
Basically, they're trying to build a full address book of everybody in the leaks.
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many people think 4chan is a place where 'anything goes.' thats not the case. the /b board is where the most shocking content submission and conversation happens, and its arguably been the one 4chans owner moot (christopher poole) has had the most trouble handling in the past. Poole determined rather early on that he was willing to sacrifice 4chans freedom of speech so long as someone was willing to foot the bill for his posh new york condo and hipster pedigree. He used to at least make a passing attempt at participation by dredging up old 4chan memes like 'crescent fresh' but lately its mostly mods and ops in his name that enforce the christmas hat overlays and such. Its nothing new though, 4chan has had a DMCA policy for nearly a decade and will gladly redact link content and ban users for posting torrents.
poole has always done the DMCA shimmy because while leaks like this draw traffic, they also have the ability to draw him into protracted litigation and harm his advertising revenue stream. hes worried about celebrities in this case growing a pair and sending him to court personally, or attacking his advertisers.
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This is why I always copyright my nude selfies...oh wait, no I don't.
On the more active boards, threads don't stick around long, so I'm not sure what this policy will accomplish.
Unless the lawyers make a full-time job of "monitoring" the site. "It's for work, I promise!"
Kappa Beta Phi has announced that it has a under-aged drinking policy, which it expects it's members to respect.
The NSA has a policy against eavesdropping on phone calls, which it pinky promises it will observe.
And finally, Slashdot is instituting a "No Trolls" policy, which First Post, Natalie Portman Naked and Petrified.
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.
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4chan is a cesspool of shit that deserves nothing less than to be obliterated from the internet. It spawns and encourages the bottom feeders of society to plague it.
i thought copyrights had to be applied for like a patent?
so i can take some nude selfies and then leak them and then sue for millions?
i smell an Underpants Gnome method of profiteering brewing here, must be some stinky underpants if i can smell them from here
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The only board this kind of thing could really matter on is /b/. Any of the others slow enough to persist threads for days (3DCG, oh no someone might post a 3D model of a cone) are benign and thus this policy amendment won't accomplish anything.
So there you have it, if you are rich enough to send DMCA notices, happy days, however if you are an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend without significant USA legal resources, you are fucked.
It's disgusting how a few celeb whores can strongarm the rules and regulations to meet their whims.
How about not taking naughty selfies in the first place, or at least don't store them all on The Cloud (tm), hm?
Copyright infringement is the last refuge of censors. On Youtube, controversial videos get taken down all the time because someone had flagged them for 'violating copyright', even though nothing could be further from the truth. Someone, somewhere was upset and did not want the videos to be viewed, that's all.
Pics, or it didn't happen!
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Submit a DMCA request.
4 Chan then looks at the thread where the offending piece was posted, finds a 404 and concludes they have already done the take down.
Want to go to court? Clearly you can see the pic/vid is no longer there.
millions of normal people lose credit cards, thousands of women (and men) get their naughties posted up and spammed by angry ex's, and no one gives a single f**k. 4Chan makes most of its popularity recycling art taken from others, and proudly posts any photos given to it.
But some rich movie stars who can prove their @ss is worth money, deliberately create valuable content and choose to store it in the most insecure means possible, and suddenly there's outrage and political action and attention by authorities.
what a load of crap. anyone with a brain has been told you don't share anything without knowing there's a risk of abuse. You don't put anything accessable online without being ready for damage control. Yet these celebrities, who are supposed to be so brilliant they can dictate social, economic, environmental, technological, legal, military and political policy, are still so dense that without their handlers in control, they're as dense and ignorant as "the rest of us" that they believe they can dictate to the rest of us.
I bet now the best Hollywood agents, after already needing to run interference on stars' social media accounts, are now gonna have to monitor all phone transmissions and camera capability to keep their clients from more self destructive behavior. Gotta keep 'em appearing smart when they're needed, by any means necessary.
The minute Sabu joined the feds and started having people sent to federal prison marked the death of it, long before this.
So people being beheaded and murdered is perfectly OK, but if someone posts a picture of your pink bits, it's time to get the FBI involved?
Not a single Image on 4chan is posted by it's rightful owner. As such, 4chan should follow it's own policy and take the entire site down for being in violation of the DMCA
So, let me get this straight.
People upload child pornography (not lolicon) to /b/ from time to time and nothing major happens apart from a couple of bans here or there. The same images can still be uploaded by other people at a later date in time.
But celebrities images get blacklisted?
It's nice to see that a bunch of arrogant narcissists who wouldn't cross the street to piss on the rest of us are far more important than children who're being abused...
Since 4chan, by design, only keeps a (fairly low) specific number of threads alive on each board and rotates them out as they lose popularity, this seems odd and superfluous.
Their response to any DMCA demand could be, "yup, it will be removed within the next day or two," without actually changing a thing.
If you get a DMCA take-down, that's proof its a real photo, not a fake.
I would argue that everything posted on /b/ is a parody.
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If the people posting the offending images are willing to defend those lawsuits, it's got nothing to do with 4chan any more.
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