Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say::undefined
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users
Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?
film studios say
Oh right, nothing to see here.
That doesn’t mean they won’t do it, the more the “money taker” class takes control the more their internal regulations actually matter.
Unless we regulate that they can’t do this you can rest assured the businesses will play with each other.
Reddit is going public, they won’t give a fuck about your privacy anymore.
“Film studios” can eat a bag of rotting dicks. Hollywood was literally founded on the specific plot of land that was not only cheap AF, but also as far away from the European filmmakers (they were stealing from) as they could afford.
Fuck. Off.
Yes. Lot of rotten dicks in that industry, but unfortunately the sucking is done by the wrong people.
- Reddit shouldn’t have these anyway
- The studios already have plenty of IP addresses that are more actionable
- I can’t believe writing something like “I downloaded the Expendables” is actionable
I downloaded the schematics for every Area 51 UFO. If I vanish suddenly, you’ll know they were real
In this case, it’s less about the actionability of going after the pirate and more about using them as a witness to go after the ISP with deeper pockets by showing they failed to kick pirating users off of their service. They don’t care that they downloaded it, they care that the users knew they wouldn’t get in trouble for piracy with that ISP and that the ISP benefited from that by keeping pirating users subscriptions active. Testimony from pirating users about why they chose that ISP and how even they knew the ISP wouldn’t do anything to resolve copyright violation issues could be pretty helpful in court.
From the article:
In this week’s filing, the film studios claim that six Redditors’ IP address logs are “clearly relevant and proportional to the needs of the case" because the Reddit users all made comments that either establish “that Frontier has not reasonably implemented a policy for terminating repeat infringers sufficient for a safe harbor affirmative” or that “the ability to freely pirate without consequence was a draw to becoming a subscriber of Frontier."
Last year, a Reddit user wrote that they received 44 emails from Frontier threatening to cut off their service due to torrent downloads, but “if they didn’t do it after 44 emails … they won’t."
In 2022, another Reddit user said that they had used Frontier DSL for years and “despite the shitty internet, they didn’t give a shit what I downloaded.”
Oh, well, if the film studios say so then by all means…
Imagine you have a right to know who’s talking about doing something illegal without proof they actually carry it out. What is that, a cop run film company?
