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Film Companies Seek ‘Torrenting History’ Related to Redditor

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Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. Reddit later responded similarly to a second and third subpoena request. Responding to a subpoena, the provider shared information related to subscriber ‘Mr.

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Reddit: IP Address Disclosure Puts User Anonymity At Risk

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Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena, requesting Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. However, Movants’ subpoena does not request anonymous users’ identities. Rather, the subpoena is limited to requesting the Reddit users’ IP address logs,” they write.

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Twitter Hunts Down Github User Who Leaked Company’s Source Code

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On March 17, Musk raised the topic once again. Twitter Files DMCA Subpoena Application On the same day the content was uploaded and then removed from GitHub, Julian Moore, Twitter Director and Associate General Counsel, filed an application for a DMCA subpoena at a federal court in California.

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Twitter Can’t Quash a 512(h) Subpoena

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Bayside followed up with a 512(h) subpoena request. If you don’t recall this procedure, it says that after sending a 512(c)(3) takedown notice, a copyright owner can get, as a matter of right, an unmasking subpoena. As required by law, the court clerk issued Bayside’s requested subpoena, and Bayside served it on Twitter.

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Watch Tower’s DMCA Warfare Collapses After Big Guns Defend Apostate

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DMCA Subpoenas Are Cheap and Powerful. For years the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has used the cheap DMCA subpoena process to identify anonymous people said to have infringed their copyrights, usually in music or videos. Nothing sat right.

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Reddit Asks Court to Protect Users’ Anonymity in Third-Party Piracy Lawsuit

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The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in U.S. A few weeks ago the movie companies obtained a subpoena asking Reddit to share the personal details of these users, including IP-address logs. Reddit was unhappy with the subpoena and characterized it as overbroad. courts, with ongoing lawsuits against several ISPs.

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RIAA Targets ‘AI Hub’ Discord Users Over Copyright Infringement

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This is a highly controversial topic in the music industry, with many insiders suggesting that commercial use of these models could breach copyright law. Exactly what is allowed and what isn’t is a topic of legislative debate. The subpoena was sent to Discord on June 14th with an accompanying letter.