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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

MFW I went to upvote but couldn't because "error: VPN blocked" 😑

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 21 points 9 months ago

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

No they don't. I use the site with a VPN often and it generally works

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Are you logged in? I can't access Reddit with a VPN if I'm not logged in

[-] denhil@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

I can access old.reddit.com with VPN. The new shitty layout will block you but there are browser extensions to automatically redirect. I'm never logged in since I deleted my accounts a few months ago.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

replace 'www' with 'old' in the address and it's fixed.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I've been using a VPN with an account recently. Works fine.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Yes they do. The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur frequently enough to be obvious they are trying to keep their user dta drsgnet uninterrupted under the guise of "stopping bots".

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it's instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."

I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur.

[-] parachaye@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn't going to protect them. You're not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.