In 2019, Reddit received 34,989 copyright notices, which resulted in 124,257 content removals - nearly five times that of the year before. In 2018, Reddit received 9,534 copyright notices, which resulted in 26,234 content removals. In Reddit's transparency reporting, it's clear that the platform has been increasing its content monitoring exponentially. Rather than shutting down r/piracy outright, as happened with those other subreddits, Reddit decided in 2019 to delete all of r/piracy's posts and comments created prior to September 2018 - a decade's worth of content, erased from the Reddit archives. The subreddit r/soccerstreams had more than 400,000 subscribers who had access to pirated soccer streams.'

Nir Kshetri, a professor at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, explained why Reddit was compelled to act: 'When it was shut down, r/NBAstreams had 474,000 subscribers who could access pirated NBA content for free.

Policing it is extraordinarily difficult.' Eaton-Cardone said, 'Reddit has banned some of the more blatant abusers - /r/NFLstreams, /r/NBAstreams, /r/soccerstreams, /r/UFCstreams, /r/WWEstreams - but Reddit is one of the largest sites in the world. Reddit has been attempting to address piracy on its platform for several years, with serious efforts to mitigate copyright infringement beginning around 2019. According to the rules of the subreddit, 'submissions must be related to the discussion of digital piracy.' The rules of the forum specifically prohibit activities like linking directly to pirated media, requesting activation keys, asking others to download pirated content, or asking how to pirate specific copyrighted works (though generalized conversations about pirating techniques are acceptable). Given the subject matter, the piracy subreddit attempts to thread a particularly precarious needle. 'Google 'reddit piracy' and you'll find lots of active links, where Reddit users openly discuss the weakness and vulnerabilities of various piracy laws,' said Monica Eaton-Cardone, chief operating officer of Chargebacks911. That you can find discussions of the vulnerabilities of piracy laws on Reddit is unsurprising. With more than 640,000 members, it was created in 2008 with the mission of being 'a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy,' according to its own description. While other subreddits have occasionally shared copyrighted material, the r/piracy forum is, by design, for individuals interested in the tools, techniques, and resources of online piracy.

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