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Reddit Objects to Filmmakers' Renewed Attempt to Obtain User IP Addresses (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 8 months ago by einat2346 to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for this company to be public and to be subject to the whims of shareholders chasing profit.

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

WCGW?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What’s more disturbing than the filmmakers continually trying to get the ips, is that the courts keep entertaining the filmmakers. At what point does the legal system say enough?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

When the MPAA stops lobbying Congress

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Again? Hasn't this been slapped down like 3 times now?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 months ago

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can sb explain the courts how fail2ban works?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

To be fair, given how useless it is a lot of the time, I'm not sure

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? If they are handing them over to people, why shouldn't the filmmaker be able to see them?

[–] einat2346 22 points 8 months ago

They only handed over 1 ip address. Because he/she explicitly said they were a customer, during a specific time period, and admitted to doing it.

Reddit is refusing to hand over any more because it's all circumstantial. Example: I heard this ISP doesn't give a fuck.

And Reddit has further evidence that handing over ip addresses will hurt the others because the film companies immediately started harassing the one ip address they did hand over, via a reverse lookup through t-mobile.