▲ 699 ▼ Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 year ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 173 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 60 points 1 year ago (6 children) This is how you get a new darknet. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago Yep there is no way they can block I2P, they have to block all of it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (4 children) In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people's identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer. VPNs are common and usually sufficient. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Don't public trackers add random IPs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing. For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago they try that in the US, using mass litigation, but it doesnt work, its usually designed to scare indivudal IP users to "turn them self in" permalink fedilink source parent [–] jownz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago A boy downloaded a movie via torrent without using a VPN. He died. Good night! 😴 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago Yep there is no way they can block I2P, they have to block all of it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (4 children) In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people's identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer. VPNs are common and usually sufficient. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Don't public trackers add random IPs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing. For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago they try that in the US, using mass litigation, but it doesnt work, its usually designed to scare indivudal IP users to "turn them self in" permalink fedilink source parent [–] jownz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago A boy downloaded a movie via torrent without using a VPN. He died. Good night! 😴 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Don't public trackers add random IPs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing. For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing. For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago they try that in the US, using mass litigation, but it doesnt work, its usually designed to scare indivudal IP users to "turn them self in" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jownz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago A boy downloaded a movie via torrent without using a VPN. He died. Good night! 😴 permalink fedilink source parent