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EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous
- mr_toad 8y ago“...an anonymous Reddit commenter who is facing an abusive copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Sounds like the Jehovah’s Witnesses are ripping off the Church of Scientology’s playbook.
- DiabloD3 8y agoYeah, but the CoS learned that the Streisand Effect makes everything worse. I would have never even known some guy on Reddit wrote apparently accurate comments about the JW until the JW happily pointed it out to me.
- siruncledrew 8y agoAre the JWs sueing an unnamed party “John Doe” (aka “darkspilver”) and asking Reddit for, presumably, email and IP address data to try to associate a real person’s identity with their copyright lawsuit? They can’t sue a fictitious username that can’t appear in court..? What’s the difference to Reddit if they say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the request? Do they have to?
- comex 8y agoReddit was served with a DMCA 512(h) subpoena. Subpoenas are normally issued by a court, but 512(h) creates a special process where anyone can subpoena a website to reveal the identity of a user they accuse of infringing their copyright, with no prior judicial review: https://www.lutzker.com/the-dmca-subpoena-process-an-underutilized-tool-for-identifying-anonymous-infringers/ https://www.lutzker.com/the-dmca-subpoena-process-an-underut... Complying with a subpoena is mandatory; failure to do so is contempt of court. But you don't have to comply immediately, and in the meantime you or someone else can file a motion to quash, which puts it on hold. In this case, darkspilver (represented by the EFF) filed the own motion to quash, rather than Reddit itself.