832
A Reddit User Admitted To Pirating a Movie 12 Years Ago. Movie Studios Want To Unmask Him. (reclaimthenet.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
170 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 44 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You’d think they’d have considered that these past few months in relation to, …other user concerns.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    You are the product, not the paying customer. That means you are cattle.

    The farmer will build a fence to protect the cattle from predators, because it is in the interest of the farmer to preserve the cattle. But come payday, the farmer will gladly butcher the cattle for profit.

    Social media users in the you-are-the-product buisness model are no different. Your user experience will be catered to you to cultivate the user base. But your experience will be actively ruined the instant it benefits the paying customer, I.e. if that means the paying customer, advertisers, will get what they want (promotion).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago

    The difference is people generally don't care about a change if it doesn't inconvenience them beyond their tolerance threshold. Losing access to 3rd party apps? Bad to some, but probably the profit of the move will exceed the cost. (their hope) But get a rep for ratting out your posters to authorities and it suddenly becomes very personal for more people.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Based on zero data and just my impression, it seems like only a minority of us were actually willing to leave over it. They might make more money money from addicts using the ad app or buying gold than they lose from reduced content creation.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent