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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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[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Doesn’t matter, these are unpaid volunteers standing up instances. Most, if not all, have no desire to fight that battle on their own dime.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

That’s why it does matter.

Even if they get the IP addrsss from an instance, they can’t use it for anything.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

It doesn’t just stop there.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

It kinda does if a judge has decided that an IP address does not identify who the offender was and thus is not enough evidence to bring a case against someone.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel like I don’t need to explain to folks around here that companies will lawyer up and basically use the legal system to harass and intimidate regardless if they have standing or not if they think you are small enough to be bullied into stopping a behavior. Which I assure you your average instance admin is.