The attorney's blog on the subject is an entertaining read:
With an update as recently as yesterday!
Reminds me of this response from TPB:
I remember they used to have an entire collection of correspondence similar to that linked on their website. Teenage me laughed his ass off at it. Now with almost all governments around the world believing they have universal jurisdiction over the Internet, I'm no longer laughing, I have to keep myself from crying about how we got to this point. :(
honestly it was pretty nice of them to hold back in that message
Remind me again what happened to them? 😅
They’re still going
Sort of, afaik the original people aren't involved anymore and the current site is notorious for being undermoderated and full of malware.
it was always full of malware
if you want safe join a private site
I find 1337x is generally safe as an open tracker for older movies. Nowhere near the quality of RARBG (RIP, never forgotten), but still.
But yeah, private trackers are definitely the way to go, generally. Especially TV show full season box sets. Love to binge. Ain't nobody got time to wait a week between episodes bruh.
1750 “partners”???????
They really value your privacy though. They've extensively vetted each and every one of them. Only the bestest of friends get to gorge on your data!
I don't understand how the data broker market works. There are thousands and thousands of these companies all selling the same data they hold on you. Surely if all 1750 of them gather the same stuff it would become essentially worthless?
Expecting overseas companies to abide by your laws is quite bizarre, just block them in the UK and move on.
No infrastructure for having the British government blacklist sites today. You'd need a British version of what China and Russia run today. Could be that they'll wind up adding it.
They'll tell the ISPs to block 4chan's IP addresses. It's what they've done with tpb and others. Next they're coming for VPNs under the whole "won't somebody think of the children" play.
won't somebody think of the children
I really wish somebody thought of the children (and young people) - the biggest enemy here is the government, using these people as tools for their authoritarian plans
Byrne also showed off the email response he sent to the regulator. “You want money, huh? Come get it,” he started, with an AI hamster wearing a Thug Life hate being surronded by mountains of dollar bills.
Was this written by AI or did they just not proof-read it for errors?
AI usually doesn't make silly spelling mistakes like that.
It'll just lie and gaslight you instead.
platiff
Given that this is quoting the lawyer, I can't tell if the lawyer typoed "plaintiff" or if the author of this article did. Given the other errors outside of the quote and lack of a "[sic]", I'm inclined to blame the article author, but...
The article did the typos. You can see the lawyer’s response in the Twitter response at the bottom of the page. Blurry, but I can make out “plaintiff.”
The additional AI hamsters were a threat in 4Chan’s previous response, as they promised to use an “even larger rodent” next time around.
See, I would have expected a capybara or something, rather than a higher-res hamster.
EDIT: looks at actual image Oh, I see. It's like, a Kaiju hamster. Dwarfing the buildings it's sitting near.
As 4Chan has no assets in the United Kingdom (given that it has no connection to the United Kingdom), that would require you to show up in a US court as a platiff
I think that the way this works is that first the British government has to go to a British court and secure a ruling against 4Chan and then go to a US court and prove to it that 4Chan is under British jurisdiction to get that ruling enforced by a US court. As an aside, I think I'd be careful if I were 4Chan
there are things that they can do that are not immediately obvious, like targeted advertising aimed at Brits, that might place them under British jurisdiction in the eyes of US courts. I also dunno about accepting donations from Brits. But if they rigorously kept their nose clean, then I agree
it's very much possible that a US court would rule that there is no British jurisdiction.
However, I do have to say that I think that the prospect of Ofcom arguing the matter in front of a serious-looking judge in a British court, horsehair wig and all, while presenting material from, say, /d/ (NSFW), and having said judge gravely contemplate it and British law seems like it'd be sound fodder for a comedy skit.
Also, the government probably needs to hit a threshold of trying to get them to comply before they can go to the British court and get them blocked in the UK.
Of all the ways and places I might have expected resistance to erosion of our freedoms, I never could have guessed it would be 4chan. Good on you, anon.
Kinda makes sense, 4chan is anonymous and uncensored and all, which makes it a terrible place but it makes sense i mean.
Were you online in the 2010's ?
I will never not love 4chan
Gross
The hacker known as 4chan
Is there no exequatur for foreign legal decisions in the US?
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