Please. You directly enabled the lawsuit. At least have the integrity to acknowledge your part -- your pretense "Oh wow, a lawsuit just happened! But I had nothing to do with it!" -- is pretty stupid.
I'll bet money the most likely result of this lawsuits -- and your actions are a big piece of it -- is Netflix, et al, will release no more datasets to the public. Instead, only researchers under NDA will be allowed to work with the data, as was basically the tradition before this.
Please. You're acting like Netflix did nothing wrong in releasing the dataset when they knew that they could be pretty easily de-anonimized. Thus providing a privacy risk.
I'll bet money the most likely result of this lawsuits -- and your actions are a big piece of it -- is Netflix, et al, will release no more datasets to the public. Instead, only researchers under NDA will be allowed to work with the data, as was basically the tradition before this.
Good job.