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Social Media 'Likes' Serve as Online Piracy Evidence, Judge Concludes (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rule #1 of the internet: If you post it on the internet, it'll never go away. Like Joel Michael Singer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well, the degree of that is also up to other people and how much effort they want to go through

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not wrong, but still.