Man, how bad do movie industry execs have to be to make us root for Reddit

So how would that work with Lemmy? If a company demands the IP of users?

surely it costs more to fight this dogshit legal battle, both in money and PR, than to simply let enthusiasts watch your films. they're already handsomely profiting, why do these fucking pigheaded hogs think it is their right, it is their duty to wring out every cent they can? fuck off.

Pirates will always find a way. These companies are just wasting time and money.

Man even in the 90's nobody was scared of having their IP address known because there's not a helluva lot you can do with one anyway, and the average regular person is using a dynamic one that resolves to a local CO and not usually their actual home address.

It was quite normal to scare the normies by having a forum signature that displayed the IP address of the machine loading the page because something that basic was enough to make them think you were a hacking wizard.

Those who were especially paranoid, used proxies (maybe VPNs but I never even heard that term until NordVPN started advertising all over the place).

Just like having something to protect yourself if you go to a sketchy area, make sure you only visit Reddit from behind a VPN.

Reddit blocks VPNs on desktop...