How will dbzer0 handle IP subpoenas?

posted 7 months ago

piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de

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7 months ago

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.

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Altima NEO@lemmy.zip

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7 months ago

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?

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Lightdm@feddit.de

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7 months ago

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.

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