Comment on Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses
Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 7 months agoThe ISP would have the records to identify the repeat infringers. Or should at least. That was the problem the film industry is going after: the ISPs not doing even the bare minimum required by law to terminate infringers, even when they had been notified many times by rightsholders.
From a previous article about this case:
arstechnica.com/…/film-studios-demand-ip-addresse…
Last year, a Reddit user wrote that they received 44 emails from Frontier threatening to cut off their service due to torrent downloads, but “if they didn’t do it after 44 emails … they won’t."
Also, do IP addresses really change that often anymore, even if you aren’t paying for a static one?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For most ISPS, every time you restart your modem it will be assigned a new IP. Some ISPs may reassign the same IP within a small time period, but most will just assign a new IP for every new connection.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Must be a regional thing. I have the same IP for years, no matter which ISP I use. Struggling to think of a single time it changed in the last 20+ years.
iwasgodonce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My parents’ isp setup a static dhcp entry per customer. If you change the mac address of your router you don’t get an address. The address you get with the proper mac address is constant and can’t be changed.