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.
Movie studios: “This is definitely the most important thing we have to deal with right now”
You could say that it was an Avengers level threat
Not the shitty movies we’re pumping out as if there were no tomorrow.
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
They think that bullying one user is going to setup an example of what happens when you fuck with them.
Fuck 'em.
IIRC they aren’t prosecuting these users, instead they want to make them be witnesses in a case against an ISP they want to say wasn’t doing enough to stop piracy. The Reddit posts were about whether the ISP takes action against pirates or something like that.
I don’t think ISP’s have any duty to prevent piracy, or anything else for that matter. Their business is providing internet to their customers, not policing each and every action
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.
I love is third world country. Free to pirate and government don’t care.
The more i read stuff like this the more i realise rights arent really a real thing.
Maybe I’m missing context, but the article doesn’t mention what this admission looked like. Was it just a use saying “yeah I downloaded the new ghostbusters movie, it sucked glad I didn’t pay for it”, or was it someone admitting to camming/distributing/facilitating piracy at a base level? Surely they are not going after someone for just casually mentioning they pirated a movie?
You’re talking about the people that sued a single mother for millions because she uploaded a video of her child with a Beyonce song faintly in the background. These people are psychopaths.
ive pirated 99.99% of the movies ive seen come find me xD
Wait, is it even possible to pay for movies outside of a movie theater?? I have taught everyone I know how to use bittorrent because I assumed that was a basic computer literacy thing. My grandma regularly pirates TV shows so they have something to watch at her adult daycare. That old bitch even offers DVD copies for a buck fifty.
You buy the DVDs.
Hope you also taught them to use a VPN.
Okay, I see this so much, but I have been
pirating virtually all of my mediadownloading Linux ISOs (in the US) without a VPN for… 20 years?I’ve gotten about a dozen letters from my ISP and I just chuck ‘‘em in a bin.
Depending on the ISP your service can be terminated for pirating. VPNs are cheap enough where you might as well just use one
What’s a cheap good VPN for someone in the US?
I’m using surfshark, I got it a 3 year subscription on a discount a while back. On reddit they had r/vpndeals if I remember right, that was a good source to find discounts. Not sure if there’s a similar community here on Lemmy
Yep, I’ve pirated so much that my whole crew all refer to me as Captain Jack Sparrow. My MO is to fire a warning shot over the bow of every movie studio and if they don’t quickly capitulate, I’ll raise the Jolly Roger and take them by force. That’s the only true pirate’s modus operandi.
Oh yeah? Well one time I downloaded a car.
He would, in fact, download a car.
Oh yeah? You got nothing on the studios… They are planning on downloading actors and actresses
People have been doing that for years :)
Damn, all I ever managed was to download some extra RAM.
