Popular “AI Hub” Discord Taken Down Following Copyright Complaints

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18 points·dannyobrien··6 comments

This wouldn’t be possible if people started choosing interoperable protocols over centralized platforms.

Why should the RIAA or Discord get veto power over groups communicating on the internet? Something is fundamentally broken here.

ABSOLUTELY.

discord is bad for a host of reasons, but this one is near the top. An organized group should at least be allowed to defend their actions, and when Big Dog Co is the owner of your communications medium this just simply can't be the case.

One can argue that the entire internet is sort of structured this way, but in practice it's rare to need to go talk to a top level domain registrar about cutting service.

KiwiFarms is about the only example, it curated some opposition fierce enough to harass any domain registrar into dropping them. The host had to go through the trouble of operating their own domain registrar and hoping that the number registrars were obscure/large enough to ignore complaints.

Here's an interview [0], Mr Moon also says he would have lost interest in hosting the project if it wasn't for the unlimited challenges posed by the haters. A lesson in the ways that what you resist, persists.

[0] https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-107-how-the-inter...

Static HTML forums have existed for almost as long as the internet itself has. There is no shortage of online forums software, free or paid. The main advantage Discord has is it requires nothing beyond a few mouse clicks to setup.

Isn't this what matrix.org is trying to achieve?

It was also back online and populating the links again within a couple hours. Allegedly the final straw was some random account made in the last week or so spamming copyrighted video links. The tinfoil hats suspected it was an RIAA plant.

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