Social Media 'Likes' Serve as Online Piracy Evidence, Judge Concludes * TorrentFreak
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A Florida man's social media 'likes' of Star Wars and Minions were presented as evidence to show he may be a prolific BitTorrent pirate.

Sharing information on social media is common for many people nowadays, but it’s not always without consequence. In some cases, simple ‘likes’ can be used as evidence in court, as a Florida man recently discovered. His Star Wars and Minion ‘likes’ were presented as evidence to support allegations he may be a prolific BitTorrent pirate.

You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.

  • Florencia (she/her)OPEnglish
    41•20 days ago

    ip addresses of individual users aren’t public and are collected by their home server.

    • Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]English
      4•19 days ago

      Here’s mine, (right now anyway, doesn’t stay the same for long) 185.220.101.21, come show up to… some datacenter in Germany…

      Also I’m not sure if dbzer0 saves those persistently or clears them out often. If they do clear them then it probably doesn’t matter much.