Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

  • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    IP hasn’t been an admissible form of identification for over a decade now.

    Now, suppose that someone hasn’t been piggybacking off of their neighbor’s wifi, and it leads to a household with multiple adults renting the place with internet included in the rent, how would you determine which specific person to take legal action against? Secondly, in order to actually file the suit without it being a waste of time, they would have to have independent data showing that this person did indeed do the action and aren’t just making it up, in which case getting the IPs from a third party would be completely moot.

    • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      Good question, once police knows the household they will check the background on all the occupants and neighbors. If still they can’t find anything and they dont feel like wasting time , they will get warrant and confiscate all laptops for forensics but most of the time they can tell just by checking the background who’s the culprit.

      I would suggest to watch the documentary about the guy who was behind the darkweb site - the silk road.

      That’s some impressive police work right there.