A Reddit User Admitted To Pirating a Movie 12 Years Ago. Movie Studios Want To Unmask Him. - eviltoast

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.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • DanNZN@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s the thing. Even though xBROKEx would probably win in court, it would bankrupt them in lawyer fees.