I’m referencing this article: https://torrentfreak.com/film-companies-seek-torrenting-history-related-to-redditor-240220/
Given that they’re expanding to reddit, I was wondering how dbzer0 is setup to handle similar requests. The legal help page for dbzer0 is just an e-mail address.
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Don’t know man. I’m not making enough in donations to pay for the server costs, never mind hiring lawyers. I’ll deal with this when I have to 😅
Wait really? Fuck I will donate you something. Also if you ever need legal help I know the EFF can support you on that.
Wait, how do we donate?
There’s two big links in the sidebar
Sweet, set up periodic donations, hopefully ive covered my costs of use
I’m on mobile so can’t see the sidebar, but did you fix it so the donation is for something innocuous? Like I want to donate to you to buy your mom flowers or something, not to run a piracy oriented server.
It’s just to add a layer of protection for everyone around, including you.
The liberapay just supports my Foss work
I’m on mobile so can’t see the sidebar…
Then I recommend upgrading your mobile experience to one that does. I personally prefer Voyager, “an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It’s a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too.”
Voyager PWA: https://vger.app/ Source code: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
All instances should have the donation links at the top of the sidebar tbh, and an infographic or something to show how far along they are to paying for monthly server costs.
The infographic would be so nice!
We so
Do you think a warrant canary would help? Basically post something ASAP that says “I haven’t been served any IP subpoenas as of today.” Then, update the statement every so often unless you get served.
Warrant canaries are an untested tactic
I appreciate the candid response (though I’m not from your server).
Here’s hoping you don’t anything annoying come your way.
It’s weird, but VPNs also work for things that aren’t piracy, like freedom of speech…about piracy 😁
Until you realize your vpn provider can see everything you do
Could always go to excessive measures, your own cloud hosted VPN node to hop to an external provider or similar. Unless you’re a major target nobody wants to deal with multiple providers and jurisdictions.
If you find a provider shady enough not to give a damn, then yes. Otherwise you have the same problem as before
Or you can use the old trick of hiding a small computer in a fake charger and leaving it plugged in at a nearby business that you don’t like.
I’m pretty sure mullvad will let you do this and they were pretty highly recommended last I checked
But their business model is solely based on not disclosing your info. If they do, most of all for just some silly comments on an Internet forum, be sure they are going to fail.
Any VPN you choose should have a ‘no-log’ policy that’s been third party verified
It’s not just that they don’t disclose it, it should be that they don’t have it
Split tunnels are a thing friend
you cant give what you dont have. i hope their log rotation is tight.
information is risk, so i delete any information as soon as its no longer needed including logs > 36 hours
I would hope a piracy instance is hosted somewhere that doesn’t care about such things as American court orders.
Looks like it’s hosted by Lithuanian Radio and TV Center. At least that’s who owns the IP address.
dbzer0? Or do you mean something else? LRTC is a public gov org, if someone is hosting a torrent tracker on their net they’re gonna have a bad time
I can’t speak to that. I just looked up dbzer0’s IP address and did a Whois to see who owned it.
Just don’t incriminate yourself on social media. Lemmy is not private or secure. Its silly for anyone to rely on dbzer0.
Also…
“The plaintiffs have always maintained that they don’t intend to pursue legal action against the targeted Redditors.”
Your probably to much of a small fish anyway…
The simple fact that lemmy federates posts will mitigate the problems posed by this. For example if they want your IP, they need to go to lemmy.today, but for mine they will need to go to tchncs.de. If we were using reddit, they would be able to get everyone’s address with just one request. The more small instances there are, the harder it becomes.
I don’t understand all of how federation works, but couldn’t they just roll their own instance and just collect all the data they get from federating?
Comments, votes, replies, edits: yes.
IP addresses and last login time: no.
AFAIK they would get the info “which user said what”. The source would be what ever instance you are from tho, not your own ip. So the owner of a instance knows as much as everyone else.
Also, the elephant in the remains in the room: discussing piracy is not piracy.
Exactly is freedom of speech.
Saying “I pirated XYZ”, though, is admitting to a criminal act, and can be used in court if linked strongly to a person through their account information and IP address.
I’m not sure that’s actually true. I’m not a lawyer but I suspect it would take more than an internet comment saying “I did it.”
I am the zodiac killer. I am DB Cooper. I shot Tupac. Jimmy Hoffa is buried in my backyard.
Come get me.
I killed Kennedy
Arr there matey, I’ve been pirating them cat videos over them interwebs again. I love Cox, they even know that I pirate all the cat videos and they just tosh the any letters that they get pertaining to my activities on the intertubes into their paper shredder.
Is this an admission? While it would seem like it, I think not. How does anyone know what is true or not, especially when it’s on the internet. Like me, am I the real LimeWire? How can you be sure?
Yes, but that data doesn’t include user IPs.
@einat2346@lemmy.today actually dbzer0 doesn’t have access to your IP address, only lemmy.today sees it
for everyone else it’s the instance that your account lives on
