Reddit urges US court to protect anonymity of six users who mentioned piracy.

It’s like people are forgetting that piracy is actually illegal.

@penguin@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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I think many people just couldn’t care less about pirating and believe the companies can’t figure out who they are. For example, I discuss pirating stuff pretty openly on my reddit account. But every single comment I make, I consciously make sure to not reveal enough for people to dox me.

I also don’t have Facebook which is how most people figure out identities.

“Hmm, they’re an underwater welder from a specific small town and they have three sons. Well this is the only Facebook profile that matches that so I bet it’s this person” type of thing.

You are only truly anonymous if you always use a VPN or Tor. If not, Reddit has your IP and the ISP knows who is behind the IP. If LE knocks at Reddit’s door with a warrant, they will give them your IP, with which they go to the ISP to get your name.

they’re an underwater welder from a specific small town and they have three sons

You would be suprised of how much less info than that is needed to ID a person. There are studies about ID’ing people via their favorites and last-watched lists on netflix.

They’re just lying about pirating to look cool.

I highly doubt there are any actual pirates on here, it’s just users being edgy. A bunch of dorks that don’t even own a boat role playing badass pirates.

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Does a canoe count?

I’d like to be that variety of pirate, at least in the older style. Not so much a modern nautical pirate though.

Johnny
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Being a pirate back in the day was also less pleasant than creative media has led us to believe, I’m afraid

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What is illegal for Americans is not illegal everywhere.

  1. I’m not American either.
  2. The vast majority of countries in the world have copyright.

Now I’m not morally against piracy, pirate away. It’s just illegal.

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