> The plaintiffs have always maintained that they don’t intend to pursue legal action against the targeted Redditors.<p>Ok, sure. But wouldn't admitting to downloading movies off BitTorrent open them up to legal action from other parties? In other words, if you downloaded a Sony movie, couldn't they bring a case?
1. All written communications with RCN concerning piracy from Oct. 1, 2017 to the present.<p>2. Payment records to RCN from Oct. 1, 2017 to present.<p>3. All personal computing records pertaining to usage of BitTorrent from Oct. 1, 2017 to the present.<p>4. All social media account usernames used including for Reddit, Twitter and Facebook January 1, 2016 to present.<p>5. All Reddit posts and messages from Jan. 1, 2016 to the present<p>6. Records of all movie piracy websites (including but not limited to YTS, 1337x, RARBG, Torrent Galaxy, The PirateBay) that were used at your Internet service.<p>---<p>How do they expect anyone to say yes to those requests? They don't have power of discovery over some person not directly involved in their lawsuit, so are they just hoping that this person not only will comply but actually has any of this data? It seems Mr. S is stonewalling them and I'm not sure what they can do about it, even with a subpoena.<p>Any lawyers want to answer what the recourse is for someone who is just ignoring your requests?
Who is allowing "filmmakers" to send a death squad after someone and try to request information they'll never get access to over not even actually pirating something but just talking about it?
This is what some collected info is. A hidden debt history on IP violations - and it's priced into the whole machinery. But if they sell it out en gross, and start collecting, then the "ignore privacy" jig is up.