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Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say

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23 pointsthunderbong9 comments

Hollywood is in an interesting ethical spot here. I doubt it matters, but if ISP/websites are responsible for 3P actions as a result of service… shouldn’t Hollywood accept responsibility for crimes inspired by their content?

> Hollywood is in an interesting ethical spot here.

Reality: Hollywood doesn't do ethics, and knows that laws are only for other people. America's film industry is centered there because, a century-ish ago, they needed to be far away from the NY-based lawyers of the companies whose patent rights they were routinely violating.

So, can we consider Reddit as a forum with real-name registration now?

They block VPNs from using the website at all, unless you're on an account that was registered already.

The new Reddit stopped allowing you to opt-out of "log outbound clicks" in the settings, so every link you click is now going through out.reddit.com first and keeping track of everything you do on the site.

If you are forced to reveal your actual IP, and they watch every link you click, privacy is completely dead on the website.

That's shit. But where can we go now for general discussions if privacy is dead on reddit? I assume Discord's worse at this and is logging every conversation.

Matrix and Mastodon? See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735532

Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

547 points by cryoz 7 months ago | 381 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789

Lemmy is like Reddit and here because it has threaded comment discussions.

It's also federated, so you can pick a server you like and have discussions with users from various servers together.

https://join-lemmy.org/

Some Reddit apps switched to supporting Lemmy instead when they were kicked off the API.

It is. That said, doesn’t CCPA require them to wipe personally identifiable information after 30 days (i.e. logs)? Logs are interesting because typically they’re stored in write-once read-many type of data stores. In reality this means, most companies will just decide to wipe it to comply. They may, and probably do store anonymized data but if that can be traced back to a specific user technically they’d be breaking the law.

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