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Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] gd42@lemmy.world 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.