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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

And this is why you VPN.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

MFW I went to upvote but couldn't because "error: VPN blocked" 😑

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 21 points 7 months ago

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[-] parachaye@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn't going to protect them. You're not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.