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by sircastor 866 days ago
Only if the film industry can figure out how to tank Reddit's stock price when it doesn't. It's a misalignment of incentives. Unless Reddit is exclusively associated with piracy and bad actors, most advertisers will probably ignore the bad press* and keep giving them money.

* I'm not even sure it'd be bad press. Internet users aren't overly fond of film companies and we're talking about a meme factory against the people who said "You wouldn't download a car."

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There are so many more disturbing things on Reddit than piracy

If those don’t deter advertisers I can’t imagine piracy would.

What are they gonna do, put out ads "Reddit has pirates on it!", that will only make it more popular.