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.
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
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 feel personally attacked. (/s)
I am in this post and I don’t like it
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it. (/s)
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.
But how does that pay the shareholders?
It doesn’t. Fuck em.
Meh, more like eat em.
We can do both.
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.
Yeah it’s sarcasm ^^
Film studios must suck my cock, I say.
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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
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
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.
So glad I did that when they fucked with their api
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.
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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.
But why do they need to worry, they do not host anything illegal (also if they only store magnet, they do not even need to store torrent). If linking to illegal content was illegal, google would be dead by now.
Edit: do not host anything illegal = none of the illegal data in the torrents files
Or the ISPs in this case. They want the information about the pirates to use them as witnesses to show that the ISP didn’t terminate copyright infringing users, even when notified dozens of times and to show that the ISPs benefitted from these practices by retaining them as paying customers.
In the immortal words of the insane clown posse, “fuck off.”
ok i REALLY need to delete my account there.
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.
You’re a complete fool, if you’re doing this without a vpn
Or from a country where an IP address does not equal a person in the eyes of the law, and therefore you cannot be charged for copyright infringement based on IP address alone.
Technically true, but I don’t need them to know what i’m doing on the internet, especially in the age where content is sometimes throttled, thanks to poor laws
Where are these countries
Canada, for one.
Useful
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”
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?
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
