Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say (arstechnica.com)
from ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.ml on 13 Jan 2024 03:57
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 13 Jan 2024 04:00 next collapse

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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Uglyhead@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 04:25 next collapse

Pay Pig Boy enough and he’ll do anything

Maybe they can make him exec at a huge studio after he dump-fires teddit in the IPO.

schwim@reddthat.com on 13 Jan 2024 04:31 next collapse

People who craft intentionally misleading titles with a qualifier at the end that diffuses the statement have been proven to be pedophiles, schwim says.

finthechat@kbin.social on 13 Jan 2024 07:04 collapse

Lol. The first thing I thought of when I saw this headline was another post I saw earlier today: "Trump must return $7.8M paid to him by other countries, Democrats demand."

kometes@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 05:17 next collapse

Have they already turned over the IP addresses?

squiblet@kbin.social on 13 Jan 2024 05:52 collapse

Reddit claims they didn’t and don’t have to.

kometes@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 05:58 next collapse

They will soon. I have no faith in their leadership.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 13 Jan 2024 06:50 collapse

As soon as the studios insert coin.

talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works on 13 Jan 2024 19:45 collapse

They’ll probably want some money for them instead.

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 05:28 next collapse

Next thing you know companies are going to want to know what you talk about inside their stores, or within public spaces, or ridding the bus.

thanevim@kbin.social on 13 Jan 2024 07:00 next collapse

inside their stores

You should see Walmart WiFi policies

CaptObvious@literature.cafe on 13 Jan 2024 14:18 collapse

They already know all of this. They can probably even make a good guess at what you’re thinking in these spaces as well as in your own home.

Mango@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 05:35 next collapse

Invading privacy to attack your political opposition. Classic.

CaptObvious@literature.cafe on 13 Jan 2024 14:26 next collapse

I can hear Judge Beeler’s eye roll from the other side of the country.

Fades@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 2024 15:45 next collapse

Reddit keeps blocking more and more vpn IPs also, they are desperate to identify you to farm your metadata. Shit like this is part of what it could be used for.

Reddit is truly indefensible at this point, absolute shit in overall content quality, UX, user respect, could go on and on

Zalamander@lemmy.ml on 13 Jan 2024 20:02 collapse

Even through my self-hosted VPN I can’t access reddit! It’s alright, though… It is helping me get over my reddit reflex.

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mouse@midwest.social on 14 Jan 2024 13:51 collapse

You can still use old.reddit.com

Zalamander@lemmy.ml on 14 Jan 2024 16:00 collapse

Ooh! Thanks, that works!! I don’t understand why, but it does!

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 13 Jan 2024 18:04 next collapse

Parents MUST buy only cookies at the grocery store, literal children say.

mouse@midwest.social on 14 Jan 2024 14:05 next collapse

So, I just walk into the film studios lobbies(Everyone of them) and ask them for an Ethernet cord, I proceed to connect my NAS to it and download every movie released by that same film studio. I’ve never had an issue from them.

Because, everything on the internet is true, right? Maybe I posted a totally false statement because it sounds good on the area of the internet I posted, or maybe I didn’t make a totally inaccurate and false statement and want everyone to know how amazing it is. The world will never know!

BlanK0@lemmy.ml on 14 Jan 2024 16:03 collapse

Reddit is becoming worse by the minute 😓