Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting
Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.
For all the Redditors now breathing a sigh of relief, grab a beer, take a load off, and remember, remember, the 5th of November.
Its a really bad idea to link directly to such sites, especially ones as good as this. You'll just accelerate their demise.
Possibly true, but what you're theoretically looking at isn't hosting pirated content. It's a link aggregator that finds an available file to stream to you from servers that already have the full file, which may or may not have been assembled from a legitimate source or torrent. Legally, this gives them a layer of plausible deniability - disclaimer IANAL.
So if this one goes down, as it probably will, someone else will just build another streaming link aggregator that does the exact same thing - there's more than few out there. This is just basically round 238,592,394,321 of internet whack-a-mole.
Fortunately, it's really hard to make lemmy comments shows up in search engine right now. Even if I search GP's username and part of their comment, I could not get his comment to appear in google search. On reddit the comments usually searchable on google in mere hours.
You can kill an man, but not the idea. thank you sir!
In the spirit of this thread, you should have linked the torrent magnet
Until the admins receive a nice check in the mail for submitting user data, then it'll happen overnight
This is great. No way they should be able to do that. Who knows what we posted on reddit over a decade ago. Why does it matter?
wow i didnt finish reading cuz im pressed for time but this is scary and glad it fell in our favorable direction. if this had been decided another way I would've been beefing my shit up for sure. my fingerprints are all over this shit I'm sure. No way was I being smart back in 2011 type shit and I'm sure its not hard to figure it out if they really want and get the court involved.
You should be smarter going forward. There is ZERO chance this is the end. Film companies are going to keep trying this shit over and over again hoping to get a bite. And it seems with the splintering of streaming services coupled with price increases lots of previous pirates are returning to their old habits.
the film companies filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena demanding "basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information"
who the fuck fills that in on account registration anyways? do they even have a field for your name?
@mrbubblesort @gsa32 no, but they'd have to answer with whatever they do have, which is your email address and IP addresses
From what I remember, they only asked for a username and an optional email address.
I didn't even know this was a thing. Damn. Glad it turned out this way though.
This doesn't seem to be about busting users for torrenting, but Texas ISP Grande apparently made no attempt to stop torrenting and these users would be witnesses in this case. Either way, it's a win for privacy that the information is not being released.
