# r/NoSleep, One of the Largest Subreddits On Reddit, Goes Dark In IP-Theft Protest

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/r-nosleep-one-of-the-largest-subreddits-on-reddit-goes-dark-in-ip-theft-protest/71325>\
**Category:** News & Articles\
**Tags:** learning, social-media\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/r-nosleep-one-of-the-largest-subreddits-on-reddit-goes-dark-in-ip-theft-protest/71325 "2020-02-25T12:46:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/r-nosleep-one-of-the-largest-subreddits-on-reddit-goes-dark-in-ip-theft-protest/71325/1 "2020-02-25T12:46:01Z")

</div>

![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/9/2/921a0b8349b5421b9f4340319308c1e1dc599276.png)

[Fortran IV](https://yro.slashdot.org/~Fortran+IV) writes: _In an attempt to “start a conversation” about copyright and IP theft, one of the largest subreddits on [Reddit.com](http://Reddit.com), the horror sub r/NoSleep, has [gone private for a week](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoSleepOOC/comments/f5h023/). NoSleep, with nearly 14 million subscribers, is one of the largest collections of horror fiction on the internet; MIT used it to [train an AI system](https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/10/31/225222/mit-researchers-trained-ai-to-write-horror-stories-based-on-140000-reddit-posts) to write horror stories. Authors retain copyright to all stories on NoSleep, but piracy remains an ongoing problem, so the moderators have elected to shutter the sub from 02/24/2020 to 03/02/2020 to draw attention to the issue._