{"id":48398,"date":"2023-03-03T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/reddit-lawyers-tell-movie-studios-demanding-user-unmasking-to-take-a-hike\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:35:26","slug":"reddit-lawyers-tell-movie-studios-demanding-user-unmasking-to-take-a-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/reddit-lawyers-tell-movie-studios-demanding-user-unmasking-to-take-a-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit lawyers tell movie studios demanding user unmasking to take a hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A sizzling potato:<\/strong> Attorneys litigating a film piracy case have demanded the identities of 9 Reddit customers who “may” have mentioned piracy on the platform. Reddit turned over a number of the info on one (or two) of the customers that gave the impression to be partaking in a “how-to” dialogue on bootlegging films; the plaintiffs need the entire customers uncovered. Reddit says, “No. We’ll see you in court docket.” <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Reddit filed authorized paperwork with the Northern District Courtroom of California refusing<\/a> to unmask customers in response to a movement to compel submitted final week. The authorized jousting stems from a lawsuit between film studios and Astound Broadband (previously RCN) over piracy.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong>: In 2021, Bodyguard Productions, Millennium Media, and a number of other different movie studios filed a lawsuit in a New Jersey federal court docket towards RCN. The go well with claims<\/a> that RCN knowingly allowed its clients to illegally obtain 34 copyrighted films, together with Hellboy, Rambo V: Final Blood, and others.<\/p>\n

The studios subpoenaed<\/a> Reddit to show over the “IP deal with registration and logs from 1\/1\/2016 to current, title, e-mail deal with, and different account registration info” of 9 Redditors. Its basic foundation for wanting the data was that it believed these customers have been concerned with pirating films by RCN as a result of that they had engaged in discussions on the topic.<\/p>\n

After trying into the accounts, Reddit launched some info on a minimum of one consumer however stated the remainder have been unrelated to the lawsuit. Its authorized counsel claimed that the subpoena amounted to a “fishing expedition” and that Reddit wouldn’t violate customers’ First Modification rights with out stable proof of their relevance to the case.<\/p>\n