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I thought about doing this as a form of easily managed passive income. But then I remembered: copyright takedown requests and child pornography. Keeping on top
by efficax 7y ago
I thought about doing this as a form of easily managed passive income.
But then I remembered: copyright takedown requests and child pornography. Keeping on top of bad actors with an image host sounds like a huge headache! And if you grow that means you have to hire people, and then how do you keep the price so low?
Good luck!
- StavrosK 7y agoYeah, that's my worry as well. Hopefully the fact that people have to pay will curb that a bit, but yeah, I'm worried about it.
- pjc50 7y agoI would hope so. I imagine the child pornographers aren't too keen on handing over payment data with their names in.
- StavrosK 7y agoYeah, I hope I won't have to get rid of the free trial or cryptocurrency payment, but I might...
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- toomuchtodo 7y agoI'm not a Google fan by any means, but you might explore the Content Safety API [1] they're offering to partners. Thorn might also offer something similar [2]. [1] https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/using-ai-help-organizations-detect-and-report-child-sexual-abuse-material-online/ https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/using... [2] https://www.thorn.org/ https://www.thorn.org/
- StavrosK 7y agoThat's very promising, thank you for the information. It might come in very handy, though I hope not.
- martin-adams 7y agoJust keep an eye out for bad actors trying to use stolen credit cards
- huhtenberg 7y agoYou should be worried. This will be abused in a matter of days if not hours.
- IshKebab 7y agoAnd he even allows payment by bitcoin! I can't imagine who would want to host images without being traceable...
- wtfishackernews 7y agoBitcoin is traceable