While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

  • t0fr
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    4 months ago

    ok but what if in losing the suit, they must give up the logs and IPs?

    Before they go under?

    like the instance and the people that discussed piracy will be hurt

    and it will put fear in others

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      4 months ago

      Not all instances keep logs…
      Some intentionally discard them, look into the policys of the instance you’re signing up to.
      All your comments and posts are hosted on your parent instance then shared to the federated instances.
      Some instances don’t even let you sign up with an email or make it optional.
      Lemmy.world keeps logs, but much more controversial instances often don’t.
      Also it’s much more complex, because you have to think about the scope of the potential lawsuit as well as the given evidence that a user is actually sharing the material infringing on their copyright; which will not be a large amount of the user base. They can’t simply sue a user for having an account, the user has to actively be sharing infringing material.

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        4 months ago

        And, to be fair, a gofundme for stuff like this often gets full very fast

        If the community is big enough to get sued it’s also big enough to spread a link for funding, easy