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Mango ,

Film studios must suck my cock, I say.

FrankTheHealer ,

VPN go brrrrrr

But seriously though, more people need to migrate away from Reddit.

AA5B ,

Maybe, but at least Reddit is big enough it can say “no”. You have no rights B over whether it dies, but it can. A smaller device may not be able to afford to.

What would happen on Lemmy? I seriously doubt anyone hosting Lemmy could afford a legal battle with something that big.

A better argument is “shut the hell up”. You’re playing with fire by discussing something a place deems illegal, on a service under the legal jurisdiction deeming it illegal. You really can’t assume any right to privacy online. Use your VPN first, and discuss it in a jurisdiction where it is ok. Countries are better suited to “just say no”

ilikecoffee ,

What would happen on Lemmy?

You switch to a different instance that isn't snitching on you, right? There's already so many instances, big and small, that I don't think it would be feasible for the movie people to go after all of them.

Sirico ,

Non-western users, oh no...anyway

KpntAutismus ,

ok i REALLY need to delete my account there.

FrostyTrichs ,

Strange, my reddit account seems to have had all its posts and comments deleted and my IP leads back to Proton. Oopsy daisy. Get fucked clowns.

WallEx ,

So glad I did that when they fucked with their api

Lemminary , (edited )

Film studios say the darnest things, don't they

notannpc ,

Or, perhaps it would be more cost effective to spend your money developing a way to access content that isn’t user-hostile. Then, suddenly, piracy wouldn’t be on the rise.

WallEx ,

But how does that pay the shareholders?

Haha ,

It doesn’t. Fuck em.

WallEx ,

Meh, more like eat em.

rickyrigatoni ,
@rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee avatar

We can do both.

stoly ,

I know that you mean that sarcastically, and I agree. In the end, they could be happy with some passive income on old IPs but decide to be greedy instead.

WallEx ,

Yeah it's sarcasm ^^

IDeserveToBeLoved ,

With CGI-NAT wouldn't the actual list be as much useful as just all 4 billion ipv4 adresses?

Chobbes ,

Poor man’s TOR :).

It’s not completely inconceivable that ISPs using CG-NAT could keep logs that would allow these users to be deanonymized, but it’s an extra step and they might not have enough information between the Reddit and ISP logs to do it. But… they’d have to be talking to the ISPs anyway, and the ISPs will probably cooperate?

laurelraven ,

"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"

AA5B ,

They may just be looking to connect a Reddit user to an ISP, then they can try to compel the ISP to give up the real identity of where the customer purchases internet service. Then it’s easy to threaten the customer to give up the user because who can afford otherwise

Art3sian ,
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a) discussions aren’t a crime.

b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?

c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.

Spotlight7573 ,

b and c) Go after the ISPs who don't disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.

Arcane_Trixster ,

They did that too. Most ISP'S outside of Comcast shrugged as well. The studios lost this fight almost 2 decades ago.

Kanda ,

Yes they will write stern, spooky letters to the tone of "give us money or get sued". Then they take the money they get, and sue no one because they have no evidence.

It's basically a 419 scam, but with lawyers

hoshikarakitaridia ,

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.

fhek ,

Reddit 💩

WheelcharArtist ,

How often will this get reposted??

SinningStromgald ,

Often. Probably until a few years after the case is settled.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Until someone reads the article, so maybe a couple years or so.

DadeMurphy ,
@DadeMurphy@infosec.pub avatar

Who actually uses their real IP these days? 😂

hikikoma ,
@hikikoma@ani.social avatar

First tachiyomi now this, is 2024 the year the copyright trolls go on the offensive?

Flaimbot ,

rare reddit W

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