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On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate? There's no profit involved with procuring information for another for-profit entity that they have no

On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate? There's no profit involved with procuring information for another for-profit entity that they have no business relationship with, and then likely having to show up for some other court battle to testify about the accuracy of the data.

Wowfunhappy 3y ago
> On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate? My thinking was, cooperating would mean they don't have to go to court, which costs money... > and then likely having to show up for some other court battle to testify about the accuracy of the data. ...I suppose that could potentially cancel out the savings. However, I would expect testifying to cost much less money than being sued!
- bastawhiz 3y ago
  If you get sued and it turns out to be bullshit, there are potentially ways to recoup your legal costs.
- tcmart14 3y ago
  Or if you do it once, then the film industry expects and requests for you to do it all the time, maybe? This is me just spit balling. If pulling this data costs m, then its m * number of request indefinitely. m is lower than the cost of a lawsuit over a sufficient number of requests. Where as, Reddit eats a lot of cost up front to try to prevent the film industry from racking up costs constantly requesting this information. And it perhaps bleed outside of the film industry. If they capitulate to film, then music might be next, followed by game studios, followed by software companies.
saghm 3y ago
Not to mention the fact that in recent memory, they've already had to contend with the threat of a mass exodus of users due to unhappiness with how the site was run. Whether or not it ended up making any sort of impact in the long run, I have to imagine that their management has no desire to risk that sort of controversy again.

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On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate? There's no profit involved with procuring information for another for-profit entity that they have no

by bastawhiz 3y ago

Wowfunhappy 3y ago
> On the flip side, what's in it for them if they cooperate? My thinking was, cooperating would mean they don't have to go to court, which costs money... > and then likely having to show up for some other court battle to testify about the accuracy of the data. ...I suppose that could potentially cancel out the savings. However, I would expect testifying to cost much less money than being sued!
- bastawhiz 3y ago
  If you get sued and it turns out to be bullshit, there are potentially ways to recoup your legal costs.
- tcmart14 3y ago
  Or if you do it once, then the film industry expects and requests for you to do it all the time, maybe? This is me just spit balling. If pulling this data costs m, then its m * number of request indefinitely. m is lower than the cost of a lawsuit over a sufficient number of requests. Where as, Reddit eats a lot of cost up front to try to prevent the film industry from racking up costs constantly requesting this information. And it perhaps bleed outside of the film industry. If they capitulate to film, then music might be next, followed by game studios, followed by software companies.
saghm 3y ago
Not to mention the fact that in recent memory, they've already had to contend with the threat of a mass exodus of users due to unhappiness with how the site was run. Whether or not it ended up making any sort of impact in the long run, I have to imagine that their management has no desire to risk that sort of controversy again.