Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say::undefined

  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even if they got the IP addresses, I thought I read an article from a while ago saying that the supreme Court decided that IP addresses aren’t good enough to take any legal action on someone since they’re shared.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Also IP addresses can be spoofed, an extreme example was a teacher who’s life was ruined because it was discovered he was stashing kiddy porn on the school issued computer, and then was exonerated because evidence was found that revealed that the actual pedo was using the victim’s laptop address as basically a VPN to find this stuff without being tracked.