I said this on the last repost as well.
Obviously there are reasons the film studios want that but actually getting information because you suspect someone crimes a bit too hard online is really tough. Your evidence must be waterproof to get a subpoena and until then you can run into a plathera of different issues thanks to airtight GDPR rules that still apply to US companies as well (they updated them to be even more strict with their newer compliance laws last year).
Actually there’s a good chance that sharing data or IPs without a subpoena could be not only devastating to any potential legal case, but also to Reddit. They will never do this because they stand to gain nothing from it as is and if they wanna go IPO they can’t pull such shakes moves rn.
Obligatory IANAL, if you need legal advice, ask a lawyer because they need all your context and they will know the ins and outs of their field.
With CGI-NAT wouldn’t the actual list be as much useful as just all 4 billion ipv4 adresses?
“In compliance with your request, we’ve looked through our posts and IP logs and have determined that all commenters discussing piracy were coming from the same subnet: 0.0.0.0/0”
First tachiyomi now this, is 2024 the year the copyright trolls go on the offensive?
Tomorrow on Ars Technica: “Film studios must suck my balls, Lemmy user OrthoStice says”
There’s like 2 decent movies released per year. I think people can do without.
No no you don’t get it. The point is to hoard the movies. Not to watch them!
They’re like Steam games: You collect more than you play.
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it. (/s)
I am in this post and I don’t like it
Eat shit
How did you know my browser’s user-agent string?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.
In the first instance, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that the First Amendment right to anonymous speech meant Reddit didn’t have to disclose the names, email addresses, and other account registration information for nine Reddit users.
Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium Media, had subpoenaed Reddit in relation to a copyright infringement lawsuit against Astound Broadband-owned RCN about subscribers allegedly pirating 34 movie titles, including Hellboy (2019), Rambo V: Last Blood, and Tesla.
In her ruling, Beeler noted that while the First Amendment right to anonymous speech is not absolute, the film producers had already received the names of 118 Grande subscribers.
She also said the film producers had failed to prove that “the identifying information is directly or materially relevant or unavailable from another source.”
This week, as reported by TorrentFreak, film companies Voltage Holdings, which are part of the previous two subpoenas, and Screen Media Ventures, another film studio with litigation against RCN, filed a motion to compel [PDF] Reddit to respond to the subpoena in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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I’m very surprised that Reddit didn’t immediately bend the knee. If they succeed in going public this policy will not continue
Probably because the brown envelope wasn’t think enough.
I’m sure for the right “incentive” they’ll happily cooperate.
if they gave in for one, they would be in for all
so they have to fight to be forced so they don’t have to answer every request
Reddit 💩
This must be the reason every piracy community I know has strict rules about not requesting specific titles. Even if they had the IPs, I’m not sure what they could prosecute, especially considering the number of users who use a VPN.
Honestly, it’s not worth their time to come after the people pirating, but rather, the people enabling the piracy to take place. In other words, users have nothing to worry about, it’s the websites hosting the torrents, that need to worry.
But torrents are not hosted on any website, bittorrent is p2p.
Torrents are metadata files, they’re absolutely hosted on websites.
They only describe how your BitTorrent client can initiate the p2p connection, they obviously don’t have the actual data that’s shared, only info about that data.
“film studios say” lol
Yeah I hate the phrasing of the headline. Makes you sounds like they did turn it over. And then you get that last part of the sentence.
rare reddit W
Who actually uses their real IP these days? 😂
