In what appears to be an escalating incursion into a user’s digital privacy, a collective of film companies continue to implore the court to compel Reddit to surrender its users’ personal details. This move is part of an ongoing piracy liability case against Internet Service Providers. Reddit, however, steadfastly resists, staunchly defending its users’ rights to anonymous speech.
Time for call habeas data on reddit
This is fucking pathetic.
I, too, downloaded movies 12 years ago. Fuckin losers. I also used Napster, come at me.
FBI!!! OPEN UP!!!
I did the most egregious thing back in the day and rented DVDs from the video store, ripped them, then returned them.
Netflix dvds in the mail, 3 dvds at a time…practically daily ripping.
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I am wracked with guilt every day.
Just don’t look at the server over there pulling half a TB of new 4k rips from usenet at a gig a second…
I don’t even really understand how usenet works tbh let alone finding a place for 4k rips.
You don’t need to feel guilty, copying onto your own blank media is why we all have to pay a levy on all blank media, even when they’re not being used for copying videos. That backup of your own stuff (family photos etc) you want to do? Pay the RIAA-tax.
Every time it amazes me that noone give a fuck about usenet since before the internet existed 😂
Back in the early days you wanna download a movie or some warez it would be like 358 parts and you would always miss some and have to ask for reposts. Hey anyone have parts 28, 34, 78, and 212-229 of “Dizzy Princess And the Shaven Dwarves?” Then you wait a day or two, watching replies. It was really an accomplishment when you get that final piece and decode the file(s) successfully.
I used to do the same with CD’s from the local library… and then seed them
Instructions unclear. *cums
You’ll get the chair for Napster.
Zapster amirite
I’ve been pirating my whole life!
How can I pirate your life as well?
I, too, choose this user’s life.
Shhhhhhh bro facebooks watching come on bro don’t be like that
The more i read stuff like this the more i realise rights arent really a real thing.
The film companies have singled out a Reddit user, “xBROKEx,” citing a 12-year-old comment admitting to pirating the movie The Expendables.
Reddit counters that this attempted breach of privacy is unwarranted, given that the statute of limitations for copyright infringement is just three years.
How ridiculous. Someone admitted / bragged / bullshitted on the Internet 12 years ago. The statute of limitations expired 9 years ago. But, the film companies are still trying to get the information on a poor xBROKEx.
even knowing it will be thrown out, the companies want to go after them. they want to hurt xBROKEx as much as they can, as an example to others that you’ll never get away with it. That they’ll hound you decades later.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Even though xBROKEx would probably win in court, it would bankrupt them in lawyer fees.
Could the selection be intentional? A silly unenforceable case to open the door for a more comprehensive invasion of privacy on platforms to make discussion and hosting discussion of piracy into a riskier endeavor?
This is what I’m thinking. This is just a case of them seeing how far they can take it. Once precedent is set they can start to litigate based on a user merely mentioning that they pirated a movie.
Could be that they’re seeking exhaustion so that can push more of their privacy breaking bullshit in international trade agreements.
Exactly what the trick is. Once the precedent is set, they can exploit the hell out of it.
What a ridiculous case. You can’t prove anything based on a comment made online. Defence will just be “i just said that to sound cool, I’ve never pirated anything and wouldn’t know how” probably doesn’t even need a lawyer as there’s no evidence.
Oh fuck that. If those type of words are spoken in court you better have a lawyer or it’s going to be twisted against you with some sort of proof that you do in fact know how to pirate stuff. Straight to jail.
But what for? His guilt expired years ago.
Yup. They will use the fact that a user said they pirated a movie as a starting point. If Reddit capitulated and handed over the user info that could be used to hunt for more evidence and possibly connect them to other pirates. It would open a juicy can of worms for these bottom feeders. Good on Reddit for standing up for their users.
“Good on reddit for standing up for their users” I mean, you can’t abuse them for cash if they’re in jail.
I also have committed the dangerous felony of pirating movies
Go ahead call the cops, I’m a gangsta yo
Admit to downloading a car and you on a list forever.
What do they even have to gain from this? Going after small fry individuals worked out so well for their image in the early 2000s.
I don’t think they care about their image. How many people decided to not see Avengers: End Game because the studios are greedy
I think the Western IP holders saw what Sony was doing, and had dollar signs in their eyes
Every day that does by and /r/piracy isn’t shuttered is a surprise
honeypot…
Yup. And in 12 years they’ll be able to spring the trap on another one! The perfect plan.
lol who said that means they’re any good with usage?
They moved to lemmy though
Well we did at least.
These comments are why I love this community.
I thought the Dread Pirate Roberts was a myth
Its a surprise to me that a reddit post or any kind of random text blurb can be used as an admission of anything. What if the guy simply says I made all that up for fun? There is no requirement for text written on the internet to be under oath. Edit: fixed spelling oauth -> oath ;)
Shit I didn’t know oauth means you got to tell the truth on the internet.
Wait until you see oauth2…
Wait a minute. Are you saying people can lie on the internet?
This changes everything!
Hold on. Let’s test this.
I knew you could lie on the internet.
Edit: holy shit it worked! I have a giant penis!!
I’m a billionaire. I have my own private island that floats above the world and I can also teleport anywhere in an instant and open portals into other dimensions. And I have a pet dragon named Sparkles.
I am a human penis with arms and legs, and I just learned how to use The Internet
Nah, they wouldn’t
I could say that I took a dump on Joe Bidens face while he soundly slept 12 years ago doesn’t mean I actually did it. ;) ;)
Found Hunter Biden’s account…
I confess. I was the 2nd gunman on the grassy knoll.
☝️this guy right here, personal FBI agent! He basically admitted to pirating the JFK movie with Kevin Costner!! 💀
I logged your IP: 127.0.0.1 - police are on their way
(spider man pointing at themselves)
Bravo!
No, no, it’s 198.162.0.1!
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is a hotbed of illegal activity.
Movie studios: “This is definitely the most important thing we have to deal with right now”
Not the shitty movies we’re pumping out as if there were no tomorrow.
With the writers and actors all in strike, they won’t be putting out any movies until they decide to be less shitty and come to the table in good faith, or all the writers starve and come crawling back because they have families to feed. I’m not holding my breath on a happy ending, honestly.
I was talking more in general but yeah, there’s also the strike.
Sir, you have a message from someone called, “A.I.”
You could say that it was an Avengers level threat
Here’s the plan, gentleman. Where’s my cigar? Now listen up! We ain’t gonna be making another movie the whole rest of duh year, see? Fuck dem writers. Don’t even get me started on the talent! So here’s what we do. We get the moneys from this kid dat donloided one of our movies 12 years ago. It’s brilliant! Where’s Harvey?
Harvey: *shaking because he knew that was the one on reddit /r/piracy 12 years ago, drunk posting for shits and giggles
Seriously. The kid could just say I lied. I wanted to look cool.
“donloided” lmao
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Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, 17 lawyers up that pirate’s poor bum!
