The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a "how to steal other companies copyrighted work" forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Reddit IPO thing?

Planned for this week

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Reddit would have to tackle the mountains of porn too for those optics.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.

Also... like... if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit, which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's not about the legal liability and more that publically traded corporations only want profit. Reddit would need to cater to advertisers who would not like all the porn, it's why Tumblr and Imgur removed the porn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.

I'd bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Huh. I hadn't thought about that. That's not a bad point either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Fair point