How Onlyfans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone

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The article discusses how AI-driven DMCA notices related to OnlyFans piracy are exacerbating the broken DMCA takedown dynamic, and the discussion revolves around the validity of the article's claims and the broader implications of the OnlyFans model.

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bamboozled

4 months ago

2 replies

Isn't the Only Fans model breaking the internet? The ultimate walled garden. You pay exuberant money to see a single content creators stuff. Imagine if people just paid $30 a USD a month to see a single content creators content?

halJordan

4 months ago

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Less of a problem than substack. OF content is highly fungible and you have to be into legally grey fetishes to really need a specific creator's content. Instead with substack you need to choose between current politics or semiconductors. Leave behind economics/international affairs so you can have health news.

jpfromlondon

4 months ago

Current politics, semicondutors, or security

more_corn

4 months ago

The only fans model rests on fake dm deep interaction. Ironically it’s men stringing along other men to pay for premium content. Only fans is pretty gross when you see that side of it.

mindslight

4 months ago

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The article title is horribly misleading. The article is about how "AI"-driven DMCA notices are "ruining the Internet for everyone", by exacerbating abuse of the broken DMCA takedown dynamic.

Crontab

4 months ago

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IMHO DMCA takedown requests should be allowed to be automated.

dmesg

4 months ago

So you want 10,000 law firms run automated AI crawlers that churn through the server quota of mostly innocent people in the hope they can find something for a takedown?

I don't think so unless they pay my server costs. And even with "only" 1-5% false positives you will fry a lot of innocent people.

avmich

4 months ago

They also must be optional :) . DMCA is too outdated.

general1465

4 months ago

Have server outside USA and ignore DMCA takedown requests.

1gn15

4 months ago

Or, more fundamentally: DMCA is ruining the internet for everyone.

Stevvo

4 months ago