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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

the film companies filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena demanding "basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information"

who the fuck fills that in on account registration anyways? do they even have a field for your name?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @mrbubblesort @gsa32 no, but they'd have to answer with whatever they do have, which is your email address and IP addresses

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Email address isn't required either. I don't know why people sign up with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @Ilandar You get penalized if you don't. In particular, if reddit decides to "lock your account for suspicious activity, please change password to re-enable" you can't do that and your account is just gone

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