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RealDebrid happily sharing customer's information that's still retained on their servers ๐
(i.redd.it)
Crossposted from Reddit: https://redd.it/1h2wkai
This behavior is very concerning, especially since it's not a one-off, their other replies on that account aren't much better.
Holy shit, this company is based in France and they're publicly doxxing their users in the replies.
I don't even know what to say, under GDPR they're extra fucked now.
They're not fucked, GDPR is all nice and dandy until it comes to States oppressing people, France has been steadily building DNA files of undesirables and foreigners and they can. ARCOM (formerly HADOPI) harvests insane amounts of personal data but it's all been made legal because it's against piracy and piracy is evil so it's fine. Enforcement of GDPR violations in France is a bad joke, CNIL won't do shit. They actively conspire with advertisers to make it easier for them to data mine legally, they only fine an infinitesimal fraction of violations, and they're extremely slow and useless.
Their official excuse is a lack of budget but when the number* of fines you levy is a few dozens even when you get hundreds of complaints about extremely basic stuff like not complying with deletion requests and websites calling Google and other US companies without needing to, the excuse wears pretty thin pretty quickly, there's ample and very clear precedent, they just don't care.
Hopefully they will get what they deserve, at the very least get their Trustpilot banned and lose any and all appearance of being a good and not shady business it gives them. Because they are a shady and not legitimate business, they don't act like one, and their service doesn't have any practical usage that isn't related to piracy. Seriously the legal usage of Debrid services is so niche that if that were all you could do with them we probably wouldn't have them at all.
Because they've been so keen on being law-abiding do-gooders this whole time, right.
I mean they should be aware that criminal charges stack up right? They're not going to get anything good from making their own situation worse by doxxing customers (multiple comments on their profile giving out the email addresses of their customers). That isn't going to help them and is just going to make it so much worse for them.
Charges don't stack in France. CNIL is gutless and useless. The worst that could happen to them is a small fine.
I have to imagine that the person or people behind Real Debrid are quite likely slightly delusional. You kinda have to be if you want to start up a piracy business. People who set up these sorts of operations generally go through life under the impression that they're invincible, that they'll never get caught, that whatever legal loophole they've devised using SovCit logic is going to save them, etc. I very much doubt he cares about stacking up charges, because in his mind he'll never face them.
That's a good point, the people who start these kinds of services, especially in countries like France tend to be of the SovCit delusional variety, and they probably do indeed believe they are invincible or won't get in real trouble for what they're doing.