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The 12-hour lifespan of content links is interesting; it prevents indexing or hot-linking content on the site. Even if the RIAA/MPAA/etc. set up bots watching t
by dpiers 13y ago
The 12-hour lifespan of content links is interesting; it prevents indexing or hot-linking content on the site. Even if the RIAA/MPAA/etc. set up bots watching the room and issuing takedowns for infringing files, the time allowed to comply with a DMCA takedown is greater than the lifespan of a file on the service.
In other words: this should be fun, until they get sued out of existence.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoFeature Request: Host on infrastructure outside of the US. EDIT: DISREGARD. It's already hosted outside the US. (Germany: https://www.ip-projects.de/ https://www.ip-projects.de/)
- chmod775 13y agoWe (ehrm, I) are based in Germany, along with all servers.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSorry about that. I should've checked before posting. Any chance you include SHA1 hashes of the files/objects?
- monkeynotes 13y agoGenuinely interested to know how Germany is a safe-haven for file-sharing since almost every other European country would probably give you trouble.
- dsrguru 13y agoI know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban social media sites that they don't have control over (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube) and replaces them with sites that they do (renren, weibo, and youku/tudou). That, combined with general censorship of the web, is far scarier than what the NSA does, even assuming the NSA's scope is as wide as television shows make it out to be. And even in most other countries, the scope of domestic Internet surveillance is unknown, which is very different from "known to be minimal". Edit: Ah if this was about intellectual property takedowns, then currently the US situation is a bit worse than most of the rest of the world. But still, China friggin censors their Internet, and comments like the above still seem to always single out the US.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI suggested it due to DMCA takedown notices, not NSA-related concerns.
- zz1 13y agoKind of related (in fact OT): Any news about the torrent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373
- toomuchtodo 13y agoUploaded ~100GB of it to S3, wasn't thinking enough to check torrent size limits. S3 limits torrents to 5GB objects. Want me to provide personal info for you to get in touch with me? I can mail you a SATA drive with the archive on it.
- 14113 13y agoIn this case though, it does make sense. For this example we're not talking about surveillance, but about intellectual property takedowns, something which american companies find (slightly) harder to do in countries other than the USA.
- buro9 13y agoThe USA has taken possession of .com domains and raided physical premises based on copyright. This need have nothing to do with the NSA and still be a perfectly valid and reasonable suggestion. I think it's reasonable that any site that has user generated content should consider not being hosted on US soil or using a .tld that is under US control.
- jjoe 13y agoProblem is upstream will either charge for handling take-down requests, null route the IP, or ask that they take their business elsewhere. I can imagine this generating dozens of abuse requests a day. It doesn't matter if you auto-comply within 12 hours - upstream still has to put time figuring things out.