{"id":24912,"date":"2019-04-08T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24912"},"modified":"2019-04-08T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:02:03","slug":"reddits-rpiracy-is-deleting-almost-10-years-of-history-to-avoid-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/reddits-rpiracy-is-deleting-almost-10-years-of-history-to-avoid-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit&rsquo;s \/r\/Piracy is Deleting Almost 10 Years of History to Avoid Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/reddits-r-piracy-deleting-almost-10-years-of-history-to-avoid-ban-190407\/\">Andy<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=19600296\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/reddits-r-piracy-deleting-almost-10-years-of-history-to-avoid-ban-190407\/\"><p>In an article published mid-March 2019, we reported how the moderators of the forum were <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/reddits-r-piracy-mods-get-tough-on-reckless-pirates-190317\/\">making best efforts<\/a> to keep content on the right side of the law and within Reddit&rsquo;s rules. Just a handful of days later, however, the moderators received notice from Reddit that they were receiving <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/reddit-admins-issue-formal-warning-to-r-piracy-totally-out-of-the-blue-190318\/\">too many copyright complaints<\/a> from rightsholders.<\/p>\n<p>For a sub-Reddit that has strict rules forbidding anyone posting links to infringing content, the notification came as a disappointment. While some complaints were legitimate (some people simply won&rsquo;t abide by the rules and some posts do get missed), many were not. This placed the forum&rsquo;s moderators between a rock and a hard place.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Uncertain of what lay in the archives and only being in a strong position to be absolutely certain of the state of play more recently, they asked the community for input on the &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Piracy\/comments\/b43khw\/the_nuclear_option\/\">Nuclear Option<\/a>&lsquo; &#x2013; deleting every post older than six months old, just to be sure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy (via Hacker News): In an article published mid-March 2019, we reported how the moderators of the forum were making best efforts to keep content on the right side of the law and within Reddit&rsquo;s rules. Just a handful of days later, however, the moderators received notice from Reddit that they were receiving too many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-08T20:02:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"42e1d584-a779-4c0f-903b-13cbaf4d3a5a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-08T20:02:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQuHVhKd5TA-QOxPLr006Wg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167,1016,209,1366,96],"class_list":["post-24912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-datacide","tag-legal","tag-reddit","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24913,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24912\/revisions\/24913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}