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Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit (arstechnica.com)

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 302 points 11 months ago

Literally illegal. Discussing crimes doesn't equal crime, so there's no reason for them to requeust IPs. And at least in the EU you aren't even allowed to disclose information related to your person.

[-] SGG@lemmy.world 132 points 11 months ago

They don't care. It's the film industry equivalent to the Microsoft support scammers. Get a bunch of targets, spam out hundreds of thousands of threatening emails, profit off the small percent of people who fall for it.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 60 points 11 months ago

I had a Microsoft support scammer once... I let him in to my system too..well not really.

I quickly spin up a quick fresh install of slack ware Linux in a virtual machine that didn't even have x11 never mind wine installed. When it was up I told him a friend uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb) to help me on the computer.

He telnetted in and could not understand why any of his malware wasn't working...

[-] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb)

I wonder if he got the joke, or was a scriptkiddie who just relies on existing tools without understanding them, and thought you meant television or similar.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 11 months ago

They’re basically telemarketing workers with hacking tools provided by an employer. They follow scripts and click the buttons they’ve been trained to use.

I’m surprised they got in with telnet and not their usual RDP. However I’m not sure they would have gotten anywhere on a Linux box with commands that are so different, unless they were a little familiar with at least MacOS (bash or zsh based now a days).

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[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 42 points 11 months ago

It's not illegal if they ask for it and reddit gives it to them.

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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

If discussing crimes equals crime then police, CEOs, and politicians should all be in jail.

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[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You should read the article. I don’t agree with them, but it’s more nuanced than that/isn’t about discussing piracy.

They are basically trying to get the IP‘s so that they can claim frontier is at fault and not being proactive. It is not actually targeting the users in a way that is designed to go after them individually. It’s trying to prove users are using frontier to pirate with impunity.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 44 points 11 months ago

That's not really extra nuance, and is about discussing piracy.

The premise that an ISP has an obligation to proactively monitor traffic when they shouldn't even legally be permitted to do so is disgusting.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 207 points 11 months ago

More corporations with zero responsibility and way too much fucking power. We need regulators with teeth and we need to remove the legal hand of business from the pockets of our legislatures. I can't believe someone actually burned down Studio Ghibli HQ before Citizen's United was. Wtf.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 39 points 11 months ago

The people who are smart enough to understand that corporations need restraint are also smart enough to know that burning a single building down will do nothing but give that company an insurance check. It needs to be the people who are in the c-suite, on the board, the consulting firms, etc. it has to happen overnight and with all of them.

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 186 points 11 months ago

Here’s mine, come and get me

127.0.0.1

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 101 points 11 months ago

Haha, I'm firing a DDOS tool at you, tha

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 25 points 11 months ago

Remember LOIC?

[-] riesendulli@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 11 months ago

Charging up muh lazors

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 11 months ago

why are you in my house on my network?

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 158 points 11 months ago

I for one want to be in compliance. Here is my IP, I checked it in Microsoft windows so it is correct. 192.168.0.1

Text me at that IP if I need to pay a fine or if I need to go to my local jail. Thanks guys, I'm sorry I pirated and I will re upload all the movie films that I downloaded to try to make this right.

[-] Haagel 75 points 11 months ago

Holy shit! My IP is 192.168.1.1!

What are the odds!?

[-] HeChomk@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

Y'all be trippin. I put a mask on my ip to hide it's true identity. The mask is just 255.255.255.0

No one will ever know the real ip.

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[-] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

upload all the movie films that I downloaded to try to make this right.

😂

[-] nobleshift@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

127.0.0.1 is where it's at .... Do you even IP bro?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

spoiler

Get it? It's cause Class A networks are bigger and therefore more "pro" than Class C ones.

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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 94 points 11 months ago

Fuck spez

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

Fuck reddit

[-] Steve@startrek.website 25 points 11 months ago

You wouldn’t download Spez’s balls just to step on them

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[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago

Spez will happily give it if it'll increase his future IPO

[-] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 78 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I believe that the following IP ranges

103.231.144.0/24
192.31.196.0/24
216.176.216.0/21
199.248.239.0/24
192.198.30.0/24
69.12.98.42

are engaged in highly suspicious activities

furthermore I can definitely say that I found some dirty pirates hiding at the following ip ranges:

175.45.176.0/24
175.45.177.0/24
175.45.178.0/24
175.45.179.0/24

my research clearly shows proof that those people are not just pirates but also engaged in highly illegal activities such as stealing BILLIONS of dollars and hacking who knows how many servers, and that's only the crimes one can talk about online.

if you don't get the joke

no, I didn't share IPs that anyone here would ever have, I guarantee it, if you don't get the joke look up "bogon routes" and then look up which ASN owns the other set.

It looks more legit than people who use 192.168.0.0/16, 8.8.8.8, 127.0.0.1, or any other things like that because most people don't know about those.

Also bonus info:

here's a tip for you, if you're a sysadmin just go ahead and ban those IP ranges on your machines, if you ever get packets from them it's an attack 99.999999% of the time (I guess unless you have customers in north korea? in which case only block the first ones and all other bogon routes)

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[-] Teknikal@lemm.ee 64 points 11 months ago

I've noticed reddit has recently started shadowbanning my posts when I have a vpn active so I'd say at this point it's probably completely unsafe to discuss anything on.

[-] 13617@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Absolutely. That and the recent vpn blocking changes has made using reddit absolutely unbearable.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

just remember to be honest with the police and give your real name, Robert'); DROP TABLE Prisoners;--

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[-] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 58 points 11 months ago

It's reddit, so I'd be surprised if they don't cave.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 57 points 11 months ago

Man that place. I know it's cliche to talk about it like talking about your ex on a date, but I posted there for good reason.

I found the solution to a rare bug that was bothering a group of people. I posted the solution, and my account was immediately banned sitewide for violating the terms of service, whatever that means.

I thought to myself: yeah... it was a mistake coming here. Leave it to the bots to have conversations with themselves.

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 55 points 11 months ago

192.168.1.420

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[-] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 11 months ago

"Why should I care about their privacy policy?" If Reddit doesn't store this info then they can't give it to the film studios.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 37 points 11 months ago

It would be great if piracy instances were hosted on I2P and TOR. Then these chucklefucks would have nothing.

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[-] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

Then provide better streaming options including price and service. Piracy will always win whether they like it or not.

I'm surprised Netflix is still around at their price rate and the way they keep canceling shows. I jumped on the BF deal for Peacock, because I wasn't gonna pay the full price.

I only have Peacock for WWE, so everything is a bonus. But not everybody is gonna pay for 7 services monthly or yearly. Either put it all under one service or understand some of us are gonna pirate.

Amazon prime is gonna start having ads this month, so people are gonna have to pay more for ad free on top of prime membership or pirate to avoid ads. Before we know, they'll start putting ads in games while they load.

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 11 months ago

I thought this was already decided by a court in autumn 2023. Is this an appeal?

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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 30 points 11 months ago

lol get fucked wanker bros