• @[email protected]
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      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…

  • @Newstart
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    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.

  • BOMBS
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    “We’re not rich enough. I need more.”

  • Spaceman Spiff
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    Isn’t there some sort of statute of limitations here? 12 years is an awfully long time

    • Muddybulldog
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      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.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • 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.

    • mintyfrog
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      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

    • @gd42
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      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.

  • @trifictional
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    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.

    • @Anomalous_Llama
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      Nintendos lawyers never fucking rest

      You’ll never be safe. Sorry.

  • minkshaman
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    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?

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    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.

  • @Galaxyboy_3598
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    I hope reddit stands their ground and refuses to give up the information unless they are forced to.

    • @XeroxCool
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      Yes, reddit, the steadfast beacon of hope for the users.

      • @Galaxyboy_3598
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        I don’t like reddit but I think this is the right move.

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    So at least one of them is one of spez’ alts, then?

    I can’t imagine reddit giving a shit otherwise.

    • Spaceman Spiff
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      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

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

        reddit is not known for making sound business decisions.