Don’t public trackers add random IPs?
Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoIn 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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 days ago
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days 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.
jownz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A boy downloaded a movie via torrent without using a VPN.
He died.
Good night! 😴
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days 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”