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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man, how bad do movie industry execs have to be to make us root for Reddit

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nah, fuck both. I'm not going to cheer for the lesser evil in a crowd.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

May they attempt to sort their differences on an ill-designed submarine, and let nature take it's course!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Loving the upvotes on this Lemmy World, let's make sure we apply it to political discussions as well!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So how would that work with Lemmy? If a company demands the IP of users?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Guess that depends on the instance. Mine will sadly have a technical issue which corrupted the database.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For our instance we've answered that here:

Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare?

edit: just wanted to share a great observation that was made by UlrikHD in our admin channel:

"So if a company wanted to demand the ip of every member on a piracy community, they would have to contact every instance federated with that community then
good to know"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Instance owners would have way, way fewer resources and almost definitely need to just capitulate. Assuming they even had the info to share, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You can offer access to Lemmy over Tor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Don’t browse lemmy with your naked IP. This isn’t the 90s. When using the Internet, wear a condom.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

As long you don't do the "known illegal" stuff you don't need a VPN.

However if you upload copyrighted material a vpn is one of very many steps to ensure that the police won't get you. A VPN alone does not provide any security. It delays at best the police

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, give your browsing history to the shady VPN company instead.

Although that would help in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shady? I only use VPNs from known companies, like Sony.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At most you will get some targeted ads (if you use "free" ones), compared to fines and jail, I say it's a good trade-off.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

surely it costs more to fight this dogshit legal battle, both in money and PR, than to simply let enthusiasts watch your films. they're already handsomely profiting, why do these fucking pigheaded hogs think it is their right, it is their duty to wring out every cent they can? fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Because as lawyers, the longer the battles, the more money they make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

As Chairman Mao used to say: punish one, educate 100. Same mindset.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pirates will always find a way. These companies are just wasting time and money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use something like Mullvad for everything so that ip adresses don't matter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yup Mullvad FTW.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Man even in the 90's nobody was scared of having their IP address known because there's not a helluva lot you can do with one anyway, and the average regular person is using a dynamic one that resolves to a local CO and not usually their actual home address.

It was quite normal to scare the normies by having a forum signature that displayed the IP address of the machine loading the page because something that basic was enough to make them think you were a hacking wizard.

Those who were especially paranoid, used proxies (maybe VPNs but I never even heard that term until NordVPN started advertising all over the place).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In the 90s everyone could find out your address by looking your name up in the white pages.

Americans became crazy after 9/11 and the patriot act.

Also, don’t use NordVPN. Worst VPN service by a long shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What? Now I can more easily find it in an online directory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just like having something to protect yourself if you go to a sketchy area, make sure you only visit Reddit from behind a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don’t know if it was VPN or using uBo but the last time I tried viewing content on my Linux setup all I saw was the whoa there pardner page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Reddit blocks VPNs on desktop...