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Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown (overkill.wtf)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Those dumbass mods at /r/piracy censoring the shit out of everyone to not post links and be uselessly vague to prevent from being taken down, and still get taken down even after all that stupid self censoring, is catharsis for me and ironic for them because it was useless to everyone that tried to look for help there since they deterred anyone from directly linking or name dropping sites or discord channels to locate piracy content. Even their wiki was dogshit useless.

So, good. Fuck them. They deserve it. Don't self censor, don't be vague, don't discourage actual piracy. Which is what they did there. Fuck them. Fuck reddit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't get certain sub rules. For example on the VPN subreddit you couldn't ask about or name ANY VPN companies. Like, what!? Then what the hell are we here for!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if their intent was to help people find a good VPN or to be the place people who want to find a VPN go and then give up looking for one.

Seems like the best way to get people to hate something isn't by going around telling people that they should hate it. It's by becoming a spokesman for that thing and telling people they should love it while making them hate you (and everything associated with you).

[–] prettybunnys 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Numerous schools of thought here BUT setting the “arbitrary” line for “shilling” at specific brands does have the benefit of helping to remove astroturfing.

The skincare subreddit and cerave come to mind.

With vpns you can at least talk about the technology and benefits of protocols and whatnot so that people know what to look for in a company.

This is of course me taking the most open minded stance I can wrt their rules

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I got banned from /r/Gaming years ago because in a thread about playstation emulation, I just mentioned what .BIN file is needed for the BIOS after someone asked, with a list of the files they were already looking at on a download site, because they were confused. They're own rules explicitly state discussion of emulation is okay, but direct links are not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the self-censoring was moreso out of concern for upsetting the Reddit admins than it was for companies like Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Does your hypothesis change how you think about either of them?