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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Doubt it. Most Lemmy instances are run by one guy on a spare PC. They're not set up to deal with legal requests, versus the police just barging in and taking the PC, while all the neighbours look on and assume you're a paedo.

While there doesn't seem to be an IP address field in the Lemmy schema, they could always get it out of the logs. There is an email address field, but I think that's only used for initial signup, verification and resetting your password, so if you used a temporary one they'd have nothing to give.

I don't know what the film industry would even do with the info if Reddit gave it to them. Likely just more bluster to deter casual pirates into thinking there are consequences to downloading the odd movie.

[–] faintedheart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So if I used a temporary email I cannot change my password anymore? I mean changing password needs email verification after logging into the account?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I meant the password reset, as in you forget your password and they send you a link to set a new one. I assume Lemmy has that.

I've not changed my password manually yet. I assume from the "new, verify, old password" boxes that it doesn't need to email you about that.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I was just lying for Internet points."

"I wanted them to think I was one of them so that they would admit their piracy to me and I could turn them in."

"Yes, I admit it, I pirated (name of public domain movie)!"

Or just don't take the stand and let your lawyer figure it out. Unless they have another file filled with evidence that an IP you owned was used for piracy and they were just looking for some kind of evidence it was you using it, I don't think they have much of a case.

Edit: apparently Lemmy removes rather than escapes angled brackets, so replaced them with regular brackets.

[–] sgtlighttree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If I change my existing email to another, would the previous email still be retained in the servers?