Tag: Reddit
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Google is Cozying Up to Reddit on AI and Content Partnership
Google and Reddit on Thursday said they were partnering on work around artificial intelligence and content. As part of the deal, Google will get access to Reddit’s data API, which gives the search giant content from the social network that it can use to train its AI systems. In return, Reddit gets access to Google’s…
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Film Studios Strike Out a Third Time to Obtain Reddit User Information
Reddit once again protected the anonymity of the platform’s users after movie studios suing lost their third attempt to strong-arm the company into turning over user information. Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures have made several attempts to obtain seven years of IP address logs from the accounts of six Redditors who discussed piracy on…
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Reddit Reportedly Strikes Deal to Let Company Use its Content to Train AI Systems
Reddit has struck a rich deal with a large artificial intelligence company to let it use the social media network’s content to train its models, according to Bloomberg. The deal is worth about $60 million on an annualized basis, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. The report didn’t include the name of the AI company. The…
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Reddit’s User Anonymity is Under Legal Assault As Pirate Streamers Targeted By Studios
Reddit’s ability to post anonymously is one of the core attributes of the social media platform. But media companies have been attempting to chip away its ability to protect its users via lawsuits, on the name of combating piracy. TorrentFreak has a nice breakdown of the numerous lawsuits, with filmmakers trying three times to gain…
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AT&T Quietly Changed its Smartphone Unlock Policy
AT&T has updated its unlock policy for paid-in-full devices without many people noticing. Instead of being able to purchase a smartphone in full from the carrier and moving to another service without waiting, customers now must wait 60 days from the purchase date. While the change happened in late July, they were spotted a few…
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Reddit Doesn’t Have to Reveal Names of Users Who Pirated Content, Judge Rules
The film industry is going after IPTV pirates, but an attempt to gather information on them through Reddit has hit a legal wall. Twenty major studios requested user information for six Redditors who mentioned piracy on the forum in 2011 and 2018. On July 29, a California judge ruled that Reddit does not have to…
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Film Companies Want Reddit to Hand Over Users’ Information Who Commented About Film Piracy Over a Decade Ago
Reddit is fighting to keep private the identities of six members who discussed piracy on the forum over a decade ago. Film companies Bodyguard Productions and Millennium, amongst others, are demanding to know the names of these users, down from eight since their previous motion to obtain names, which was denied. Reddit is refusing to…
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Reddit Bans Illegal IPTV Providers
Unlicensed IPTV providers took another hit this week as Reddit banned a sub-Reddit known for being the hub for providers looking to promote their services. Reddit shut down the /r/iptvresellers sub-Reddit for violating its policy against transactions involving prohibited goods or services, as first reported by Torrent Freak. While Reddit didn’t expand on specifics about…
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Which Live TV Streaming Service is Most Popular on Reddit? PlayStation Vue vs DIRECTV NOW vs Hulu vs Sling TV vs Philo vs FuboTV vs YouTube TV
EDIT: To see a more recent update on this topic from September 2019, click HERE. Unfortunately, when it comes to subscriber counts, most live TV streaming services don’t release exact numbers so it can be difficult to determine which services are the most popular. We have heard from analysts that give their opinions but there…
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Reddit is Cracking Down on Piracy SubReddits Like NBAStreams
Reddit has long been a popular place to find pirated content. Recently though Reddit has started to seriously crack down on subreddits that promote piracy including shutting down the popular NBAStreams subreddit that offered easy access to free streams of NBA games. This comes after a similar subReddit SoccerStreams was also shut down this year…