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Discord says piracy subpoena would violate users’ First Amendment rights (www.theverge.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by Gemini24601 to c/technology

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Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If they did not collect any information, they would not have any information to give when they are served a subpoena.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How else would they store and sync the information?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Encrypt it end to end with them not having the keys

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They do have to retrieve old messages when new users join though. I’m sure the government can force them to lett them in a server and unlock the roles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Why?

Why is channel history needed for new users?

Back in the IRC days you joined a channel that was just empty, if you wanted the history you had to run an IRC client continously, I remember running screen irssi on a separate computer and sshing into the server, reconnecting the screen with irssi in it.

If you want the history automatically, you can't expect privacy.

[–] JustARaccoon 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Because a lot of people go to discord servers to access existing information?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

That is a good point, I have never done that, and to me it is just a chat system....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I remember running screen irssi on a separate computer and sshing into the server, reconnecting the screen with irssi in it.

I still do that today.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

90% of the reason I even have discord is because people much smarter than me use it to share information. Nobody uses other areas suited for sharing information anymore. It's either Reddit or discord.