Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by kjkjadksj on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:00PM (#35791668)

It sets a dangerous precent because these tools make it seem like you can remove stuff from the internet for good, when you cannot. They don’t do anything for services that crawl reddit and archive all your posts.

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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by zzzeek on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:46PM (#35792327)

so, then "So much useful information has been destroyed" claimed by grandparent post is not actually correct then?

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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by LegionMammal978 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:07PM (#35792587)

Plenty of information is archived after being deleted from its original source, it's just common that the particular information you're looking for is not included in any archives at all, much less any archives you can access.

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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by Klonoar on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:28PM (#35795637)

>when you cannot

It's more of a "you might not be able to". Even with all the archival things that target Reddit currently, plenty of accounts who purge their comments squeeze through just fine.

If you post on the internet, yes, you do need to understand it's not sitting in one database table somewhere. It doesn't mean it's futile to try and clean up though.

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