Just want to drop this here because of how ridiculous these entertainment cartels can be:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/...

Piracy aides in creating sales.

Up to 3% more for movies in theaters: https://hbr.org/2020/10/the-digital-piracy-dilemma

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.

"We're not rich enough. I need more."

Isn't there some sort of statute of limitations here? 12 years is an awfully long time

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

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.

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.

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?

Reddit won a similar case a few months back.

https://www.techdirt.com/...

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.

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

Uhhh, all of them?

So at least one of them is one of spez' alts, then?

I can't imagine reddit giving a shit otherwise.

havent read the article but how exactly are they going to collect that information if even email is not a requirement on reddit

It was probably Dave.