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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
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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.

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[–] Sarcastik@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

He didn't do it for you, he didn't do it for us. He did it for himself.

If news got out that Reddit violated anonymity, the site would be dead before the end of the week. This was a move to protect his shareholders, nothing more.