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Eat shit
“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.
Good thing we’re not on Reddit then 😎
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.
b and c) Go after the ISPs who don’t disconnect the pirating users and sue them instead. Go after the deep pockets.
They did that too. Most ISP’S outside of Comcast shrugged as well. The studios lost this fight almost 2 decades ago.
There’s like 2 decent movies released per year. I think people can do without.
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.
Film studios must suck my cock, I say.
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.
Sadlyi think this is the inevitable
VPN go brrrrrr
But seriously though, more people need to migrate away from Reddit.
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”
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.
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.
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.
In the immortal words of the insane clown posse, “fuck off.”
How often will this get reposted??
Often. Probably until a few years after the case is settled.
Until someone reads the article, so maybe a couple years or so.
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.
ok i REALLY need to delete my account there.
