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.
The same idiot judge who still uses a Nokia flip phone?
sharing your high seas with Cuckbook
lmao never
I can’t imagine the shame I’d feel if there was a legal finding stating that I was a fan of the minions.
“It was for my kids, I swear!!”
That’s absolutely insane.
but also entirely predictable.
delete all social media you can.
Id upboat this but that might be used as evidence as libel. lol
You commented which is worse. It’s futile to hide, the popo is on their way.
Preemptively denying dismissal of their future case, trial will continue when the request for dismissal arises.
To quote the great Suzy Eddie Izzard: I was dead at the time!
Just another day in Florida.
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You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
What request? The record are public.
ip addresses of individual users aren’t public and are collected by their home server.
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.
That judge can fuck off ⬆️
I’m going to jail then lol
They don’t jail you, they take every penny you’ve ever had or will have for the rest of your life.
It’s only fair, you becoming destitute for liking a post is far better than the risk that they didn’t get their $24.95 from you. /s
Might be worth paying for a VPN to avoid this.
Yea, half the guys in CECOT in El Salvador are torrenters, didn’t you know?
Some of them are also undergoing DHMO deprivation.
“Florida Man” - checks out.
Florida Judge
Florida Man < Florida Judge < Florida Politician
No because I guarantee the consequences for those people are going to be way worse MPA.
We all know where the real injustices are.
What if we “comply” and give them their damn records if they come demanding them.
Gigabytes of data that is just red herrings and stuff that doesn’t lead anywhere but still has to be checked. And in formatted in such way it has to be done manually and can’t be automated without even bigger effort and cost. If you give it to ai it will just start spouting nonesense or preferrably accusing obviously wrong people. It is likely not possible to make something like that, but it would be great if it was.
It’s not very difficult to parse through database data for specific usernames and comments/upvotes related to that.
A determined judge would just make you pay for the time it takes to do so.
There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn’t cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.
Rule #1 of the internet: If you post it on the internet, it’ll never go away. Like Joel Michael Singer
well, the degree of that is also up to other people and how much effort they want to go through
Not wrong, but still.
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Turn over records? Is this not all public already?
IP addresses are generally not.
It is. In the fediverse everything is open otherwise federation wouldn’t work.
You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.
I assume then that dbzer0 USA owned/operated?
The admin team is distributed and the infra is in europe iirc.
So noGood* to know, that’s a relief!
I wonder, what happens if one places a server in international waters? What jurisdiction if any does apply?
I mean, it would be thematic to be able to place pirate stuff on the literally high seas, ya kno?
Most attacks on servers are on the connections. All IPs are owned by entities part of countries, so your IP is always under someones jurisdiction. The same is true for regulsr DNS entries, so the domain of that server.
For getting the data however, there also isn’t any protection in international waters. Someone would just raid you and you could do nothing about it. What good is lawlessness if you don’t have the ability to enforce your own “laws” about not having your data taken away?
You could lay low so noone bothers with that, but then you could also just lay low with regular secretive hosting.
sh.itjust.worksis Canadian, just FYI. You may already know that, but for those who don’t…Yep and we’re part of Fedecan now.
Nice. I’ve got a SJW account as well, but that’s for more political and social stuff. My db0 account is more focused on the tech side of things.
I do identify strongly with dbzero, but I had made an assumption based on the .com domain that’s proven false now. Didn’t look that hard while signing up tbf. It’ll probably be my backup instance should mine go bad somehow. Meantime mine is also piracy friendly and my community can be a coal mine canary, but I was told Fedecan policy changes nothing in this regard so far.
