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Reddit tells label it won’t cough up IP address of prerelease music pirate

by mattdennewitz on 8/15/16, 7:43 PM with 2 comments

  • by etjossem on 8/15/16, 10:19 PM

    Atlantic Records wants to subpoena Reddit for "all and any other Reddit accounts which accessed [Reddit’s] service from the same IP address on or about June 15, 2016." That's an unreasonably broad scope and an infringement of privacy waiting to happen. If the user went through a public proxy or coffee shop, that could mean handing over hundreds of accounts' worth of personally identifiable information.

    I'm not surprised at Reddit's response at all.

  • by JoshGlazebrook on 8/15/16, 9:01 PM

    The user probably posted with either a public SOCKS proxy or TOR, so it would most likely be a pointless endeavor.