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Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or, perhaps it would be more cost effective to spend your money developing a way to access content that isn’t user-hostile. Then, suddenly, piracy wouldn’t be on the rise.

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

But how does that pay the shareholders?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn’t. Fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh, more like eat em.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We can do both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know that you mean that sarcastically, and I agree. In the end, they could be happy with some passive income on old IPs but decide to be greedy instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's sarcasm ^^