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Piracy on Reddit has often run rampant on the community discussion website. There are several subreddits dedicated to the discussion of piracy, but Reddit doesn't officially allow pirated content.
Aniwave and dozens of other anime piracy websites have gone dark, to the grief of anime fans who argue that paid streaming services aren't good enough. ... One Reddit user said to "mark my words ...
The groups and individuals who operate piracy websites potentially earn millions of dollars from their efforts. This revenue can come from a number of sources, such as advertising, subscriptions, and the sale of content. [16] Piracy behavior demonstrated that economic theory explains a notable part of the individual variation in a survey study.
Reddit and other websites participated in a 12-hour sitewide blackout on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League , a group formed to organize future protests.
Wider protests were considered and in some cases committed to by major internet sites, with high-profile bodies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, Reddit, Mozilla, LinkedIn, IAC, eBay, PayPal, WordPress and Wikimedia being widely named as "considering" or committed to an "unprecedented" internet blackout on January 18, 2012.
Many consumers who visit piracy sites like those operated by Fmovies “don’t even realise that it’s wrong,” Mr Rivkin said. “Some of these sites are as clean and beautiful as, say, a Netflix.
On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post. [46] [47]
Video game piracy is the unauthorized copying and distributing of video game software, and is a form of copyright infringement. It is often cited as a major problem that video game publishers face when distributing their products, due to the ease of being able to distribute games for free, via torrenting or websites offering direct download ...