Social Media 'Likes' Serve as Online Piracy Evidence, Judge Concludes
Social Media 'Likes' Serve as Online Piracy Evidence, Judge Concludes
A Florida man's social media 'likes' of Star Wars and Minions were presented as evidence to show he may be a prolific BitTorrent pirate.
Sharing information on social media is common for many people nowadays, but it's not always without consequence. In some cases, simple 'likes' can be used as evidence in court, as a Florida man recently discovered. His Star Wars and Minion 'likes' were presented as evidence to support allegations he may be a prolific BitTorrent pirate.
You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
That judge can fuck off ⬆️
I can't imagine the shame I'd feel if there was a legal finding stating that I was a fan of the minions.
"It was for my kids, I swear!!"
"Florida Man" - checks out.
Florida Judge
Florida Man < Florida Judge < Florida Politician
I'm going to jail then lol
They don't jail you, they take every penny you've ever had or will have for the rest of your life.
It's only fair, you becoming destitute for liking a post is far better than the risk that they didn't get their $24.95 from you. /s
Might be worth paying for a VPN to avoid this.
You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
What request? The record are public.
ip addresses of individual users aren't public and are collected by their home server.
Here's mine, (right now anyway, doesn't stay the same for long) 185.220.101.21, come show up to... some datacenter in Germany...
Also I'm not sure if dbzer0 saves those persistently or clears them out often. If they do clear them then it probably doesn't matter much.
What if we "comply" and give them their damn records if they come demanding them.
Gigabytes of data that is just red herrings and stuff that doesn't lead anywhere but still has to be checked. And in formatted in such way it has to be done manually and can't be automated without even bigger effort and cost. If you give it to ai it will just start spouting nonesense or preferrably accusing obviously wrong people. It is likely not possible to make something like that, but it would be great if it was.
It's not very difficult to parse through database data for specific usernames and comments/upvotes related to that.
A determined judge would just make you pay for the time it takes to do so.
There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn't cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.
Yea, half the guys in CECOT in El Salvador are torrenters, didn't you know?
Some of them are also undergoing DHMO deprivation.
Turn over records? Is this not all public already?
IP addresses are generally not.
It is. In the fediverse everything is open otherwise federation wouldn't work.
The same idiot judge who still uses a Nokia flip phone?
You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
I assume then that dbzer0 USA owned/operated?
The admin team is distributed and the infra is in europe iirc.
So nosh.itjust.worksis Canadian, just FYI. You may already know that, but for those who don't....Yep and we're part of Fedecan now.
sharing your high seas with Cuckbook
lmao never
We all know where the real injustices are.
No because I guarantee the consequences for those people are going to be way worse MPA.