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I read through the article and I’m baffled. I couldn’t watch the news video or understand what was going on at the bottom of the post... but were news outlets a
by hahla 8y ago
I read through the article and I’m baffled. I couldn’t watch the news video or understand what was going on at the bottom of the post... but were news outlets and the government involved for a site that’s skimming PDFs, hosting them and then slapping on ads? This isn’t something new and if I recall correctly SlideShare did the same thing to grow to where they are today. Is it legal, I don’t know, but these types of sites are dime a dozen and nothing new..
- roozbeh18 8y agoI was thinking the same. It was hard to understand the conclusion of what happened at the end.The news video was not playable either.
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- ericabiz 8y agoFrom the article: "Multiple tax files of Dutch citizens had been published via www.docplayer.nl" I don't speak or read Dutch, so I couldn't watch the video clip, but my guess is these tax files contained important and sensitive information. They were probably scraped from a government website.
- zandjager 8y agoThey probably did, but someone made the mistake to put them somewhere where they were publicly available. Also the "russian" made tools available for taking down the content, tools which according to the article were working in an effective and timely manner.
- aasasd 8y agoThere are hundreds of "sharing" sites for every kind of thing that you'd want to find on the web, all copycats with the exact same idea. MP3s, tech manuals, etc. They're more popular in developing countries, I guess because we're used to piracy from the 2000s. The figure of 92 K$/mon is pulled out of thin air, and a person earning that probably wouldn't live in a two-room apt on the outskirts. (Not saying that they found the right guy, though.)