Mindwipe said:
I'm just gonna keep sitting over here laughing at all the 4chan drama
Dito. Although I like me some 4chan for fun and giggles from time to time, I don't give a damn about all that drama. We had that sort of stuff so many times... and absolutely nothing changed on 4chan in the long run.
Second, they're already signing their own death warrant by encouraging people to upload as much pirated material as they can and acting like no one will ever know.
Oh, it is absolutely set in stone that the site will eventually go down because of that. On the other hand hypnochan managed to stay online for years, despite all the DMCA complaints and uploaded copyrighted stuff. True, the mods on hypnochan did delete stuff when asked to, on the other hand hypnochan was WAY bigger than this 8chan clone even in the earliest days, and as one of the main pillars of the hypnofetish community it was incredibly well known for the people interested in this sort of stuff. It'll take time before copyright holders realize what is going on and notice that that site even exists, especially if the guys over there manage to keep a low profile. Maybe the site will be online for 3 months. Maybe for 6, maybe a year... On the other hand you can download tons of content in spans of time like that.
I'll be happy that I won't have to rely on gigatribe (and it's terrifyingly low download speeds without prem account (25-75 kb/s for a 1 GB vid, seriously?)) for some time for one...
The time of MC chans is over anyway, the hub is simply far superior in almost every regard (size, popularity, community interaction (massive for such a niche fetish), a dedicated forum and multiple easy to access chat channels, a massive easy to search archive in which the pics never get deleted etc. etc.), the only thing a chan has going for it is "anonymity" (that doesn't really exists as long as you are not using TOR or proxies as anyone with some know-how can easily track down your IP), not really a big advantage considering that you don't even need an email to register here (too bad that's something many people on the chans don't realize, if they only wanted they could easily name themselves something like AnonymousX(1/2/4/99/etc) and oekaki functions (wish imoutobooru would support that :/). The days of any MC-chan are numbered, especially if there are so many of them and they lack activity and content as a result. You might just as well create a series of "copyright -what is that?" chans that at least go out with a bang after a few months than a wisper, dying a slow and lonely death.
And there's still the matter of a 16-year-old running the whole thing (again, no offense to him).
To be honest I was already uploading stuff on hypnochan and discussing porn and sex with classmates when I was that age. Not really genius of him to make that information public... but as long as talking about porn with teenagers isn't illegal (which it isn't) I honestly don't give a damn ^^. At least that's what I am thinking.
