Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011

The MPAA really is grasping for straws aren't they. Ever since people were able to stream movies during the pandemic and found it was a much cheaper more enjoyable experience, they have been trying to invent ways to drive people back to the theaters. Now they are suffering major block buster busts and they have to point the finger at someone so they think, "it's those darn Reddit pirates!" Its funny that they don't realize they caused their own demise. But really I wonder, why specifically 2011?

Now is a good time to remind users that you are placing some trust in the instance that you use. Lemmy is not anonymous. It is pseudo-anonymous. Your instance can do pretty much anything with your account up to and including turning your account into a sock puppet, and they know exactly where you're connecting from.

With that said, it's a lot better than most social media today that actively tries to violate your privacy at every turn.

Scary but hey at least Reddit isn't handing out the info so easily in this instance

In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these

A lot of server owners won't and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it's users

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And why are they demanding it? Just scrape it like the rest of us.

Well, Reddit isn’t in my good books right now, but I hope they fight this fight hard, and I hope they win. Good Luck Reddit

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2011?? seems like an awfully long time for them to still care.

Seems this has become standard operating procedure for much of this industry - make shitty movies, wonder why they flop at the box office, then go scorched earth against alleged "pirates" and blame them for your "losses". When the studios make movies that are worth seeing, people will go to see them. See: Top Gun Maverick and Avatar 2, among other recent multi-billion dollar hits.

It is worth noting that many of the more egregious abuses of the legal process as of late seem to be by this one company Millennium Media and their many subsidiaries (Bodyguard Productions, HB Productions, etc.) They are basically just a bigger version of Strike 3, just professional trolls who would rather profit off of legal shakedowns than make good movies.

12 years ago, talking about piracy isn’t incriminating so why do the big movie companies need their info? So they can potentially intimidate them for more info they potentially don’t have?

Ha! I torrented all my shit on December 31st 2010 so you can suck my fucking deek lawyers!

Thats creepy as hell.

Thank goodness I only openly supported piracy from 2019 to 2023 with 5 different accounts lmao

Dodged a bullet there

Imagine when film companies pay Google for access to pirate’s gmail registrations. I’m glad I switched to Protonmail years ago. Any of these “free” services will sell your information for the right price.

Laughs in GDPR deletion request

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Makes me want to screen record DRM protected stuff and redistribute it right now :)

2011!?!? Lmfao

Piracy is part and parcel of the global economic system, and since that system hasn't changed since time immemorial, well it always has been too.

Statute of limitations??

Why not just scrape it? 4head

LOL, that's cute. Reddit doesn't even know my real email address.

On a similar note how safe is it to use private torrents such as IPTorrents? They obs keep a log of users and upload/download stats and probably the torrents downloaded and ip addresses. Surely rights holders would be better off going after this data no?