Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011
Reddit urges US court to protect anonymity of six users who mentioned piracy.
Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/eu-commission-piracy-report
Piracy aides in creating sales.
Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma
Interesting. NAL, but I wonder if you are in legal trouble for game piracy if you could motion to dismiss due to their lack of standing due to this report...
"We're not rich enough. I need more."
they were never going to get my dollars... so no loss.
I think the goal is not to actually get the identities since their lawyers probably told them they won’t be able to get them. The goal is to rather scare the next user who would be tempted to share his piracy tools and tips . If you scare enough people from sharing because they realize there is no anonymity , you by default reduce the amount if piracy.
Isn't there some sort of statute of limitations here? 12 years is an awfully long time
Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.
Good luck, bozos. What are you gonna do? Extradite me to the US?
Extradited man: "What are you gonna do? Extradite me?"
I will never take these companies' side over a noble sailor of the high seas, but I took a look at the movies produced by Millennium Media, and they need every red cent they can get. They're certainly not getting them from tickets or rentals. Good lord, I haven't seen so much ripe stinking dogshit since the summer I spent clean cages at the animal shelter.
How humiliating to get copyright swatted for downloading something from the studio that brought you such timeless classics as The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure and Day of the Dead: Bloodline.
Yea good luck suing the entire USA World
FYI, the article says that the ip addresses originate in Texas.
They could have used proxies.
They could also no longer be in Texas, given it was 12 years ago.
Only 6? Really? I'm pretty sure /r/piracy existed and had more users than that in 2011.
Shit... I could be one. I got banned from /r/Gaming around that time just for telling someone what specific .BIN file to search for to get their playstation emulator running, despite others mentioning the same thing and their rules only saying you can't post links.
My guess is it's 6 users that they've identified as doing a bunch of distribution but only have their reddit names to identify them
They aren't going after the users, they are suing the ISP. The comments are about the ISP's leniency towards torrenting, so they are trying to find the users to validate their claims and add the comments as evidence to the case.
I talked about piracy a whole bunch in the switch piracy subreddit.
Wonder if I’ll get sued in 10-15 years for it along with the 1000s of others.
Nintendos lawyers never fucking rest
You’ll never be safe. Sorry.
I've only ever gotten hit with notices from my ISP downloading Disney movies and Wii games back in the day. I've downloaded Switch games more recently and never got shit lol
Apparently this is the second time they’ve tried, and they’ve come with no new compelling case.
Maybe they think that Musk-lite will help them this time?
Reddit won a similar case a few months back.
Lol, it's entirely possible that that info has rusted away in the intervening decade, even if Reddit wanted to comply. This is a scare tactic.
I hope reddit stands their ground and refuses to give up the information unless they are forced to.
Yes, reddit, the steadfast beacon of hope for the users.
I don't like reddit but I think this is the right move.
Uhhh, all of them?
So at least one of them is one of spez' alts, then?
I can't imagine reddit giving a shit otherwise.
There's plenty of good business reasons not to want to deal with these requests. Even if the first ones would be easier to just turn over, the 1000th, or millionth gets overwhelming
There’s plenty of good business reasons not to want to deal with these requests.
reddit is not known for making sound business decisions.
havent read the article but how exactly are they going to collect that information if even email is not a requirement on reddit
Get your IP from reddit, then get your ISP to reveal your real name and address based on which IP you were assigned on that date and time.
I doubt ISPs keep logs for that long
How would you make an account to post/comment without an email?
You used to not need one at signup.
If you leave the email part empty it will still let you sign up
It was probably Dave.
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