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Film companies demand names of Reddit users who discussed piracy in 2011

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | natatravel) Reddit is fighting another attempt by film companies to unmask anonymous Reddit users who discussed piracy. The same companies lost a previous, similar motion to identify Reddit users who wrote comments in piracy-related threads. Reddit avoided revealing the identities of eight users by arguing that the First Amendment protected their right to anonymous speech. Reddit is seeking a similar outcome in the new case, in which the film companies' subpoena to Reddit sought "Basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information" for six users who wrote comments on Reddit threads in 2011 and 2018.

 

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