To Be Anonymous in a Porno Torrent Lawsuit, You've Got to Make Your Name Public [Wtf]

A porno house called Hard Drive Productions (obviously) has dutifully collected a swath of IP addresses associated with illegal downloads of its content. Now, as part of a mass lawsuit, the smut peddlers are petitioning for access to the names associated with those IP addresses. The targeted torrenters can keep their names anonymous, sur—as long as they enter their names in the unsealed public record of the case. Which is really, really dumb. More »

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