WingNews logo WingNews
top | item 19735839

(no title)

ghomrassen | 6 years ago

Heard about this a couple days ago, crazy stuff. For those who don't know, bilibili is a massive video hosting platform in China aimed toward the younger generation.

So the question is who leaked it and why? Just a disgruntled employee or the effect of 996?

discuss

order

rococode|6 years ago

Elaborating a bit more on the size of bilibili: it has around 100m monthly users and trades as NASDAQ:BILI with a market cap of ~$5.7B.

This is not some small-time shop, as far as social media companies go bilibili is one of the more established companies out there.

pluma|6 years ago

I'll never understand what market cap has to do with company size. Stock prices are basically an arbitrary value mostly determined by how much people buying stock think the stock is worth, are they not?

Correct me if I'm wrong but theoretically an overhyped two man operation running at a financial loss could generate the same market cap as a much larger company with massive profits? As I understand it, the only somewhat tangible factor is the actual money in the company which again can be bloated by overeager investors.

I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious about the rationale.

zhte415|6 years ago

Bilibili was also criticised by the Chinese government last week for the 'quality' of some hosted content (read: pornography, satire). The next day its foothold in younger generations was praised by the same relevant organs (read: being told to focus or educational and 'moral' content).

pferde|6 years ago

Probably a little of each. The repository "title" of swituo/openbilibili-go-common, when pushed through google translate, says:

"I don't know if these are embarrassing... The troubles of morality are going out and turning right to pay attention to 996.icu"

yorwba|6 years ago

"我不清楚这些是啥… 道德心泛滥的麻烦出门右转关注996.icu！" means "I don't know what these are... I hope those with an overflowingly moral heart won't be too bothered to go out and turn right to star 996.icu"

The original repo was taken down, so I don't think you can attribute that message to the leaker.

toomuchtodo|6 years ago

hubot (a Github bot) automatically publishes DMCA takedown requests into the repo [1] in question.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/

akerl_|6 years ago

I suspect the commenter you’re responding to means ~”who leaked the source code referenced in the DMCA, and why”. The DMCA takedown request refers to a repo that it claims contains internal information and data from the claiming company.