are we allowed to post link using base64 here?

brickfrog, 11 months ago

No according to admin, see the comment thread in the other post

lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/399136

mobcharacter, 11 months ago

understandable, thanks

quirzle, 11 months ago

Have to say it's the right call. It's common enough that software (jdownloader2 comes to mind) will do the conversion automatically. it'd be super trivial for a bot crawling for DMCA links to add that functionality at some point.

crimeschneck, 11 months ago

But what if another layer was added? For example base64-encoded link to a pastebin which includes the direct link.

quirzle, 11 months ago

Seems like that'd fly.

From the link in that comment:

You can link to websites pages related to piracy. Linking to websites linking to your content (not with a 301 redirect, before you ask) is OK. In general try to keep one degree of separation between our collective groins and your links.

JoeKrogan, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

[Yes]. Edit. It seems that was changed

AphoticDev, 11 months ago

Admin says no, the links have to be to a middleman site without automatic redirects.

JoeKrogan, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I thought db0 said b64 links were OK. It looks like that changed recently as initially there was b64 links allowed when the server was setup