Filing a DMCA w/ our host will get you banned permanently!

[rawTOP]

If you need content taken down off the site you need to work with the moderation team by using a "report" link next to the content. If that doesn't work send me and/or a moderator a DM. Anyone who files a DMCA with the host will get permanently banned from the site.

Some exposure fetishist idiot from Asia has twice uploaded content and then filed a DMCA with the host. That's NOT OK. It could harm the site and if you do it you'll be banned permanently.

[In case you're not familiar with the term - a DMCA is a legal take down request.]

[EuroMusk76]

Perhaps you should change the title of this thread. It might sound catchy and interesting to people interested in the subject matter who are tech savvy or into internet law.

I seriously doubt that anyone not familiar with the technical jargon would know what a DMCA is and click on this thread. So your target audience will not be reached.

[ErosWired]

13 hours ago, EuroMusk76 said:

I seriously doubt that anyone not familiar with the technical jargon would know what a DMCA is and click on this thread.

I think “will get you banned permanently” is probably sufficiently intriguing to interest people in checking it out, especially if they don’t know what it is.

[Treehugger]

1 hour ago, ErosWired said:

I think “will get you banned permanently” is probably sufficiently intriguing to interest people in checking it out, especially if they don’t know what it is.

Yup, exactly why I checked it out. I had no idea what RawTop was talking about. 

[hntnhole]

7 hours ago, Treehugger said:

Yup, exactly why I checked it out. I had no idea what RawTop was talking about.

Ditto.  I don't think it's something I need to be concerned about though ..... 

[EuroMusk76]

OK, admit it: you're all just looking for punishment. 😉

@hntnhole

@Treehugger

@ErosWired

[Treehugger]

4 hours ago, EuroMusk76 said:

OK, admit it: you're all just looking for punishment. 😉

@hntnhole

@Treehugger

@ErosWired

Depends….what have got in mind?😈

[ErosWired]

6 hours ago, EuroMusk76 said:

OK, admit it: you're all just looking for punishment. 😉

@hntnhole

@Treehugger

@ErosWired

If you go looking for punishment it means you want it. If you want it, it isn’t punishment.

I don’t go looking for punishment - I straight up ask. 😃

[BootmanLA]

On 11/2/2022 at 7:51 AM, EuroMusk76 said:

Perhaps you should change the title of this thread. It might sound catchy and interesting to people interested in the subject matter who are tech savvy or into internet law.

I seriously doubt that anyone not familiar with the technical jargon would know what a DMCA is and click on this thread. So your target audience will not be reached.

If someone doesn't know what a DMCA is, they're not about to go filing a takedown request under that law. This is a silly concern to have.

The target audience is "people who might be inclined to file a DMCA takedown request", and anyone in that category BY DEFINITION knows what the DMCA is.

Now, it's possible that people who are inclined to file such a request might not read the rule about "this will get you banned". But then changing the title to something MORE obscure - that doesn't mention the DMCA - is even LESS likely to reach them and deter them. They're more likely to skip over it as just another rule to ignore.

[TaKinGDeePanal]

On 11/2/2022 at 1:05 AM, rawTOP said:

If you need content taken down off the site you need to work with the moderation team by using a "report" link next to the content. If that doesn't work send me and/or a moderator a DM. Anyone who files a DMCA with the host will get permanently banned from the site.

Some exposure fetishist idiot from Asia has twice uploaded content and then filed a DMCA with the host. That's NOT OK. It could harm the site and if you do it you'll be banned permanently.

[In case you're not familiar with the term - a DMCA is a legal take down request.]

Is that the guy who posted in Mandarin?

[badjujuboy]

6 hours ago, BootmanLA said:

If someone doesn't know what a DMCA is, they're not about to go filing a takedown request under that law. This is a silly concern to have.

The target audience is "people who might be inclined to file a DMCA takedown request", and anyone in that category BY DEFINITION knows what the DMCA is.

Now, it's possible that people who are inclined to file such a request might not read the rule about "this will get you banned". But then changing the title to something MORE obscure - that doesn't mention the DMCA - is even LESS likely to reach them and deter them. They're more likely to skip over it as just another rule to ignore.

I would think that quite a few people would would know what DMCA would mean considering the amount of porn available for downloading on the internet. Not that I’m accusing anyone from “illegally” downloading anything.  😜

Edited November 4, 2022 by badjujuboy

[BootmanLA]

1 minute ago, badjujuboy said:

I would think that quite a few people would would know what DMCA would mean considering the amount of porn available for downloading on the internet. Not that I’m accusing anyone from “illegally” downloading anything. 

I'm sure they do. But then if they know what "DMCA" means, it negates the post suggesting that the "target audience" for this warning won't understand what DMCA takedown requests are.

To simplify: Anyone who sees the subject line about DMCA takedown requests and doesn't know what those are, is unlikely to actually ever file a DMCA takedown request, and thus is not the target audience of the post RawTop made.

Conversely, anyone who is thinking about filing such a request undoubtedly knows what a DMCA takedown request is, and thus IS the target audience of RawTop's post. My point is that there's no reason to change the subject to try to grab more people's attention. 

[BootmanLA]

13 minutes ago, BootmanLA said:

Conversely, 

Crap. I know better, but my brain isn't fully firing this time of night.

This should have said "Contrapositively," instead - the second sentence is the contrapositive, not the converse, of the first one. Logic nerds will know what I mean. 

[TaKinGDeePanal]

On 11/4/2022 at 12:40 PM, BootmanLA said:

... anyone who is thinking about filing such a request undoubtedly knows what a DMCA takedown request is, and thus IS the target audience of RawTop's post. My point is that there's no reason to change the subject to try to grab more people's attention. 

I'm one of those who likes to expand my education. No concrete idea what a DMCA was (although I had a vague idea from looking at both vanilla and non-vanilla google searches where at the end most mention it). Won't be filing one, but now I am better educated about what one is. All information gained can only be a good thing (if that makes sense!).

 

[Dinoo]

On 11/3/2022 at 6:56 PM, BootmanLA said:

Crap. I know better, but my brain isn't fully firing this time of night.

This should have said "Contrapositively," instead - the second sentence is the contrapositive, not the converse, of the first one. Logic nerds will know what I mean. 

I admit I've got nothing useful to add the discussion, but you had me at 'poz(itively)'😅