are we allowed to post link using base64 here?

Yatoo@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 38 points –

I know we can't post direct link to software here but what about using base64?

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

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/399136

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.

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

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.

I dont see why not but im not a mod. Its kinda depends what it is. I think ive seen links in newyuzupiracy

[Yes]. Edit. It seems that was changed

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

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