Reddit refuses to hand over IP address of music pirate

Aug15

by Sindy Cator on August 15, 2016 at 4:47 pm

Reddit says it’s not giving up the IP address of a user who leaked a Twenty One Pilots song a week before its planned release. A track from the Suicide Squad soundtrack, ‘Heathens,’ made its way to file-sharing site Dropfile on June 15 and was uploaded to the Twenty One Pilots subreddit minutes later. The leak then forced Atlantic Records and its subsidiary label Fueled by Ramen to release the track on June 16, a week before scheduled rollouts with Spotify, iTunes and other platforms. According to a lawsuit filed in the New York State Supreme Court, Atlantic Records and Fueled…