TorrentFreak reports:
After doing without an element needed for safe harbor protection, 4chan has just introduced an official DMCA policy. The decision comes in the wake of the celebrity photo leak known as The Fappening and 4chan users' connections to it. In the meantime, the leaked image library has clocked a million torrent downloads.
While most US-based user-generated content websites should not entertain operating without safe harbor, the way 4chan is set up provides a unique scenario in respect of infringing content being posted by its users.
“Threads expire and are pruned by 4chan’s software at a relatively high rate. Since most boards are limited to eleven or sixteen pages, content is usually available for only a few hours or days before it is removed,” the site’s FAQ explains.
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Reddit has closed the board that became a hub for the leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and other celebrities.
The massive celebrity photo leak originated on image-sharing site 4chan, but a Reddit page called “r/thefappening” quickly became a heavily trafficked page where users were sharing links to the stolen pictures.Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, in a post entitled “Every Man is Responsible for His Own Soul” on the Reddit blog, explained the site’s reasoning.
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Reddit systems administrator Jason Harvey, also known by his Reddit username alienth, gave further explanation of the decision, along with providing a rundown of what happened after the massive leak. “The situation we had in our hands was the following: These subreddits were of course the focal point for the sharing of these stolen photos,” Harvey wrote. “The images which were DMCAd were continually being reposted constantly on the subreddit. We would takedown images (thumbnails) in response to those DMCAs, but it quickly devolved into a game of whack-a-mole. We’d execute a takedown, someone would adjust, reupload, and then repeat. This same practice was occurring with the underage photos, requiring our constant intervention.” “It became obvious that we were either going to have to watch these subreddits constantly, or shut them down. We chose the latter. It’s obviously not going to solve the problem entirely, but it will at least mitigate the constant issues we were facing. This was an extreme circumstance, and we used the best judgement we could in response.”
What do SN denizens make of all this?
Hacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theft
A hacker was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday for a scheme that exposed intimate photos of the actor Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities.
George Garofano, 26, was accused of illegally hacking the private Apple iCloud accounts of 240 people, including Hollywood stars as well as average internet users, allowing their nude photos and private information to be spread around the internet.
He was one of four people charged in the 2014 hacking scandal, in which private photos of Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and others were published online. Lawrence said at the time the invasion was equivalent to a sex crime, and called for tougher laws.
A federal judge at a US district court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, ordered Garofano to serve the prison term followed by three years of supervised release.
iCloud leaks of celebrity photos, aka "The Fappening".
Previously: Celebrity Nude Photographs - and Possibly The Flaw that Allowed Them to be Accessed
4chan Introduces DMCA Policy
Reddit Bans Page Where Celebrity Nude Photos were Shared
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by evilviper on Wednesday September 03 2014, @05:28PM
DCMA == Defense Contract Management Agency
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Wednesday September 03 2014, @05:55PM
thanks editors!
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Wednesday September 03 2014, @06:03PM
I'm not a copy-editor... I just play one on SN when I'm sleep-deprived.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 03 2014, @06:55PM
> DCMA == Defense Contract Management Agency
I propose that DCMA be made the official spelling because it lends itself to a really evocative pronunciation - "Dick-Ma."
The copyright cartels are such assholes that they would dick over their own mothers for a buck.
Ironically, this seems to be one of the very few cases where they are trying to un-dick the situation. It won't work, but at least it is morally sound.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 03 2014, @07:55PM
Or go with Dum-Ca ("dumb cock").
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:52PM
Am I just ignorant or does no one in the world pronounce "cock" as "ca?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 04 2014, @02:18AM
Could be both.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 03 2014, @09:16PM
Disk-Ma-Butthole
(Score: 5, Funny) by cafebabe on Wednesday September 03 2014, @06:57PM
I wonder if 4chan will have a sequel to The Fappening. If so, I presume it will be called The Fappening 2: The Second Coming.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Blackmoore on Wednesday September 03 2014, @07:02PM
The Fappening 2: The Wrath of DCMA?
The Fappening 2: The Empire strikes back?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 03 2014, @07:21PM
The Fappening 2: Attack of the Clones
Yes ... I'm throbbing with excitement waiting for nude jar jar binks selfies
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:20PM
/me pukes
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:01PM
Ah, and here I sit with no mod points. Good one!
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday September 03 2014, @07:31PM
So they needed "safe harbor protection" from users posting this kind of stuff (surprised it took this long!). The only way to get that is have an official DMCA policy? In the end they can pretty much ignore the DMCA notices because threads will 404 and take all the content with it anyways.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Wednesday September 03 2014, @07:45PM
Yea, treating 4chan like a normal web forum in terms of DMCA is a bit amusing, just due to its ephemeral nature. Kind of like having a DMCA policy on an IRC channel (not including warez-bots).
(Score: 1) by GoonDu on Thursday September 04 2014, @07:26AM
>because threads will 404 and take all the content with it anyways.
In a sense, I agree but it really depends on the board. Some boards have archives that save everything that goes on in there (including images) and you never know when the next equivalent of 'Fappening' will happen in those boards.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:22PM
Horrible site filled with horrible people. The Fappening is just another example of lax morality in those parts.
I'd be happy if someone hacked the 4chan servers and did a good sudo cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jasassin on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:55PM
Horrible site filled with horrible people. The Fappening is just another example of lax morality in those parts.
I'd be happy if someone hacked the 4chan servers and did a good sudo cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda. Noone forces anyone to type 4chan.org into their browser and press enter. You find pictures of naked people, and the concept of someone somewhere masturbating, worse than a dickhead hacking your system and then destroying all the information on it? Wow. That really gives some insight into your mentality.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 03 2014, @10:58PM
You find pictures of naked people, and the concept of someone somewhere masturbating, worse than a hero hacking your system and then destroying all the information including the photos of naked people they're not supposed to have in the first place on it because in other threads you profess to value privacy?
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday September 03 2014, @09:06PM
I think you meant to run this:
find /dev/ -name 'sd*' -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 -I {} cat /dev/zero > /dev/{}
There's a good chance that there is more than one drive on the server.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by stderr on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:41PM
The shell redirects stdout before the commands are started. You would end up with a file called "/dev/{}".
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday September 04 2014, @05:51PM
I see, quite the conundrum. The solution I can think of is absurd:
find /dev/ -name 'sd*' -print0 | xargs -n1 -0 -I {} echo "/dev/zero > /dev/{}" | xargs -n1 -0 cat
I'm not even sure it would work. If this was c/c++/bashscript, you would do a for each, but I'm looking for a nice bash one-liner.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by stderr on Friday September 05 2014, @12:33AM
The first xargs doesn't output any '\0', so I don't know why you would add a -0 to the second xargs. Not sure why you would use cat in the second xargs either.
You could replace the complete second xargs with a sh -s (or maybe sudo -s if that's your thing).
I would probably use a -maxdepth on the find to avoid writing to e.g. /dev/foo/bar/baz/sdqux. Or more likely just use something like ls -1 /dev/sd*. The devices don't have weird names (and if they do, sucks to be you) so no need for stuff like -print0 and -0 at all. The /dev/ is already part of the {}, so remove that. If I were on a system where you would need sudo, I might use sudo tee {} > /dev/null instead of > {}, to have as little as possible running as root. I might even use tee on systems where sudo ain't needed.
All in all, I would probably use something like:
ls -1 /dev/sd* | xargs -i echo "tee {} < /dev/zero > /dev/null" | sh -s
Or simply use good, old dd:
ls -1 /dev/sd* | xargs -i dd if=/dev/zero of={}
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by stderr on Friday September 05 2014, @12:44AM
Writing to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb probably doesn't have to wait on each other, so
( ls -1 /dev/sd* | xargs -i echo "dd if=/dev/zero of={} &" ; echo wait ) | sh -s
could also be used, if you want a little speed-up.
The wait part is of course only needed if you (like me in this case) would prefer NOT to get the prompt back before ALL the writing is done.
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday September 05 2014, @03:23AM
Thanks for the reply. My bashfu has gone to mush as I only get to touch windows, java, and MS access if I'm lucky enough to code that month. dd makes a lot more sense than cat. That is the obvious choice. Not sure where I would ever use it. Perhaps as a cron job that keeps getting delayed by some warrant cannery. Or maybe employment insurance at some fictional Linux/Unix/Mac shop where I dream of working.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 3, Insightful) by egcagrac0 on Thursday September 04 2014, @08:22AM
The boiler needs an overpressure relief valve.
4chan (and /b/ in particular) may be horrible in general, but it does serve a purpose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 04 2014, @12:34PM
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Thursday September 04 2014, @02:48PM
I've seen a fairly convincing argument that it is better for 4chan to exist than it is for it to not exist. Firstly, it is easier to have a large number of Internet trolls in one place where they can be monitored. Secondly, if they're creating havoc over there then they're not creating havoc over here.
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(Score: 2) by stderr on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:30PM
The shell will try to redirect stdout before sudo gets a chance to run. sudo would only "help" you get permission to read /dev/zero.
You have a pretty weird system, if you need root access to read /dev/zero, but don't need root access to write to /dev/sda.
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:27PM
I would like to check out the torrent, but I couldn't find a link to it. Please, help a poor lonely guy out. :-p
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:29PM
Piratebay
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:39PM
I tpb'd "the frappening" and got nothing. Thanks for responding, but I need more help.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 3, Funny) by zocalo on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:52PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday September 03 2014, @09:09PM
Heh. Your comment helped me out there. Got it! All it took was your comment on my misspelling, and my usual at Starbucks:
A Quadruple Espressinoso Super Grande Light Blueberries And Cream Half-Soy Full City Roast Nonfat Half-caf Organic Caramel Vanilla Iced Double-Shot Macchiato Black Tea Chai Foamed Shaken Sugar-free Cinnamon Eggnog Dolce Peppermint Gingerbread Pumpkin Spice Latte Thrice Blended Extra Hot With Three Ice Cubes Hold The Whipped Cream, One Sweet'N Low, and One Nutrasweet.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 3, Funny) by WizardFusion on Thursday September 04 2014, @08:16AM
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 04 2014, @01:58AM
I found the full archive with something like "jennifer lawrence naked pictures."
Honestly it was nothing you haven't seen in porn sites before, and less titillating because for the most part it was the sort of casual nudity you have seen with long-term girlfriends or a wife. If anything it humanized the actresses that are usually put up on pedestals by the entertainment industry. But that's probably the real offense in their eyes rather than the fact that someone saw them naked. It rather undoes all the expensive PR dollars they spend to manage their images and personae and it probably affects their bottom line accordingly.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday September 04 2014, @02:31AM
It was what you said times 10. It's already been deleted. I just wanted to see what the broo haha was all about. You're right, they are just normal people. As a matter of fact, I see women 10x hotter than any of those women every time I walk into wal-mart. People idolize these grenade grundle chodes, and overlook all the much more beautiful women around them.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:44PM
s/frap/fap/
But trust me, it's not that interesting... Or so I have heard.
(Score: 2) by _NSAKEY on Wednesday September 03 2014, @08:58PM
This article [socialnewsdaily.com] makes brief mention of that fact as well as providing a general overview of the traffic generated by The Fappening on reddit.
As for the original story: This is almost as funny as the the fact that Brett Larson thinks 4chan is an actual, living person and generally sounds clueless. [independent.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday September 03 2014, @10:31PM
<conspiracy theory hat>
So can this be construed as a "honey pot" by the FBI et al to tag half the netizens as child pornographers and put them in the "master" database?
</conspiracy theory hat>
(Score: 2) by stderr on Thursday September 04 2014, @04:47PM
You mean "the other half"?
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday September 03 2014, @10:47PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday September 03 2014, @11:54PM
Seeing as how those photos are private, you're a jerk.
Seeing as how those photos were private, you're a scholar.
FTFY.
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 04 2014, @12:05AM
(Score: 1) by koreanbabykilla on Thursday September 04 2014, @03:33AM
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