Here’s why this massive horror subreddit has shut down for a week

In one very creepy corner of Reddit, a war over content theft is raging.
On Monday morning, r/NoSleep – a fiction-based, first-person horror subreddit with almost 14 million subscribers – went private for a week. At the time of writing, anyone visiting the sub is greeted by the following message.
NoSleep has gone private in support of its authors.
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It's no exaggeration to say that a huge number of people will be affected by this closure.
According to the tracking tool Red