For all the Redditors now breathing a sigh of relief, grab a beer, take a load off, and remember, remember, the 5th of November.
Its a really bad idea to link directly to such sites, especially ones as good as this. You’ll just accelerate their demise.
Fortunately, it’s really hard to make lemmy comments shows up in search engine right now. Even if I search GP’s username and part of their comment, I could not get his comment to appear in google search. On reddit the comments usually searchable on google in mere hours.
Possibly true, but what you’re theoretically looking at isn’t hosting pirated content. It’s a link aggregator that finds an available file to stream to you from servers that already have the full file, which may or may not have been assembled from a legitimate source or torrent. Legally, this gives them a layer of plausible deniability - disclaimer IANAL.
So if this one goes down, as it probably will, someone else will just build another streaming link aggregator that does the exact same thing - there’s more than few out there. This is just basically round 238,592,394,321 of internet whack-a-mole.
the film companies filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena demanding “basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information”
who the fuck fills that in on account registration anyways? do they even have a field for your name?
@mrbubblesort @gsa32 no, but they’d have to answer with whatever they do have, which is your email address and IP addresses
Email address isn’t required either. I don’t know why people sign up with it.
Because reddit makes you think it’s needed. It’s cheeky you have to skip the email entry or leave it empty with nothing telling you that it’s optional.
@Ilandar You get penalized if you don’t. In particular, if reddit decides to “lock your account for suspicious activity, please change password to re-enable” you can’t do that and your account is just gone
Who cares? Just make a new one.
Are you saying you do not care about internet points? Outrageous!
Great, now they can sell it instead of having to give it away for free.
spaz right now looking like: 🤑🤑🤑
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Begone, ye demon
This is great. No way they should be able to do that. Who knows what we posted on reddit over a decade ago. Why does it matter?