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In my case, I'm not involved in any copyright infringement. I'm merely trying to protect myself from frivolous libel threats. The problem with these threats i
by MikeEhrmantraut 9y ago
In my case, I'm not involved in any copyright infringement. I'm merely trying to protect myself from frivolous libel threats. The problem with these threats is that you're forced into making a choice: spend real money to defend yourself (my site makes no income) or give in to the assholes and take down posts. When the disputed post concerns a shady for-sale transaction, removing the post effectively whitewashes the shady seller's reputation and potentially exposes innocent future buyers to getting hosed. It's a crappy situation and I just want to be immune to it all.
- mirimir 9y agoSo just run the site anonymously. If you're really paranoid, on a Tor onion. If you only somewhat paranoid, on a server from Host Sailor or another tolerant host. Edit: If you're really really paranoid, on a Tor onion, hosted on an anonymously leased server, from a tolerant host. And know your OPSEC.
- function_seven 9y agoDidn’t protect Ross Ulbricht :)
- mirimir 9y agoTrue. But he made stupid mistakes. Such as leaking his true-name email address in posts about SR on Bitcoin Forum and StackExchange. And misconfiguring Apache so it leaked error messages from its clearnet IP. And having an iptables rule in the server that pointed to a private VPN server that he'd created. And buying a bunch of fake driver's licenses, and having them sent to him in SF.