Filmmakers want a California federal court to compel Reddit to disclose the identities of several 'pirating' users.
A group of filmmakers wants Reddit to disclose the identities of several users who made piracy-related comments. Reddit objects, citing its users' right to anonymous speech.
I think this touches on a bigger picture... It would only take Reddit handing over that data to change what it meant to have a piacy community on the internet. I'm not sure if people would be willing to trust again if that happened...
I'm glad we moved to Lemmy, and let's make it work 🏴☠️
I got my GDPR request and Reddit keeps all your IP logs from when you registered. Or maybe my account isn't old enough. Wonder how far it goes back for like years old accounts.
Reddit pointed out that the anonymous speech rights of its users shouldn’t be violated, as long as the filmmakers have other ways to obtain the information.
r/Piracy will either not be around in a few years or it will barely be what it is now and the Reddit users will pat their corporate champions on the back.
I was perma banned from reddit after getting banned from /r/movies for talking about piracy and then later accidently leaving a couple comments on posts there while scrolling through my feed. Some of these subs are definitely under corporate control.