Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses::Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

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Would a lemmy insurance stand up to such a request?

Or is this a case where from a privacy perspective, Lemmy is worse

I had this conversation with one of my instance’s mods about a month ago.

Essentially:

If provided with a court order, we could theoretically provide:

  • Email address
  • Record of all comments / posts made by the user
  • Incoming/outgoing DMs for the user
  • Voting activity made by that user
  • Communities subscribed to

(I think that's everything off the top of my head)

IP addresses are not logged in the db or linked to a user, but if the RCMP shows up with a warrant and says "We want all IP addresses that submitted a comment at 09:11:43am PST Jan 16 2024" then I'd be able to get that from the access logs. Access logs are only stored for 14 days and then purged, DB backups are taken daily and stored for 30 days.

Lemmy instances would probably have far fewer resources to fight with. But also more likely to fly under the radar so I don’t know overall.

Hopefully this information is not being retained so until industry players take notice it should be safe.