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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/eu-commission-piracy-report

Piracy aides in creating sales.

Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Interesting. NAL, but I wonder if you are in legal trouble for game piracy if you could motion to dismiss due to their lack of standing due to this report...

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We're not rich enough. I need more."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

they were never going to get my dollars... so no loss.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I think the goal is not to actually get the identities since their lawyers probably told them they won’t be able to get them. The goal is to rather scare the next user who would be tempted to share his piracy tools and tips . If you scare enough people from sharing because they realize there is no anonymity , you by default reduce the amount if piracy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't there some sort of statute of limitations here? 12 years is an awfully long time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck, bozos. What are you gonna do? Extradite me to the US?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Extradited man: "What are you gonna do? Extradite me?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will never take these companies' side over a noble sailor of the high seas, but I took a look at the movies produced by Millennium Media, and they need every red cent they can get. They're certainly not getting them from tickets or rentals. Good lord, I haven't seen so much ripe stinking dogshit since the summer I spent clean cages at the animal shelter.

How humiliating to get copyright swatted for downloading something from the studio that brought you such timeless classics as The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure and Day of the Dead: Bloodline.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea good luck suing the entire ~~USA~~ World

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, the article says that the ip addresses originate in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They could have used proxies.

They could also no longer be in Texas, given it was 12 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Only 6? Really? I'm pretty sure /r/piracy existed and had more users than that in 2011.

Shit... I could be one. I got banned from /r/Gaming around that time just for telling someone what specific .BIN file to search for to get their playstation emulator running, despite others mentioning the same thing and their rules only saying you can't post links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My guess is it's 6 users that they've identified as doing a bunch of distribution but only have their reddit names to identify them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They aren't going after the users, they are suing the ISP. The comments are about the ISP's leniency towards torrenting, so they are trying to find the users to validate their claims and add the comments as evidence to the case.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I talked about piracy a whole bunch in the switch piracy subreddit.

Wonder if I’ll get sued in 10-15 years for it along with the 1000s of others.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendos lawyers never fucking rest

You’ll never be safe. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've only ever gotten hit with notices from my ISP downloading Disney movies and Wii games back in the day. I've downloaded Switch games more recently and never got shit lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Apparently this is the second time they’ve tried, and they’ve come with no new compelling case.

Maybe they think that Musk-lite will help them this time?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, it's entirely possible that that info has rusted away in the intervening decade, even if Reddit wanted to comply. This is a scare tactic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope reddit stands their ground and refuses to give up the information unless they are forced to.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, reddit, the steadfast beacon of hope for the users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't like reddit but I think this is the right move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Uhhh, all of them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So at least one of them is one of spez' alts, then?

I can't imagine reddit giving a shit otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's plenty of good business reasons not to want to deal with these requests. Even if the first ones would be easier to just turn over, the 1000th, or millionth gets overwhelming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s plenty of good business reasons not to want to deal with these requests.

reddit is not known for making sound business decisions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

havent read the article but how exactly are they going to collect that information if even email is not a requirement on reddit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Get your IP from reddit, then get your ISP to reveal your real name and address based on which IP you were assigned on that date and time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I doubt ISPs keep logs for that long

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How would you make an account to post/comment without an email?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You used to not need one at signup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you leave the email part empty it will still let you sign up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was probably Dave.

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