Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses::Firms wanted seven years’ worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.
Would a lemmy insurance stand up to such a request?
Or is this a case where from a privacy perspective, Lemmy is worse
tabular@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Discussing " “piracy” " (unauthorized copying) does not equate to being guilty of it: title aught to say “alleged”.
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Once again: the film industry in this case wasn’t after the data to go after the individuals who made the posts but to use them as witnesses against their ISPs who did nothing in response to piracy complaints. The DMCA has a requirement for a repeat infringer policy and evidence that the ISPs knew about the piracy and that their users chose them or stayed with them because the ISP wouldn’t kick them off goes a long way to winning the case against the ISP. They were going after the deep pockets.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nearly every ISP assigns IP addresses dynamically. So unless they’re using IPs from very close timespans, the raw IP addresses are effectively useless to identify repeat offenders.