• astraeus@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    12 years ago, talking about piracy isn’t incriminating so why do the big movie companies need their info? So they can potentially intimidate them for more info they potentially don’t have?

    • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Really no idea why that timeline. In 2010 I got an email from whatever ISP I was using at the time politely asking me to stop torrenting music. They basically said, hey we see you’re doing this, please stop or you can’t have internet through us anymore. That is when I learned what vpns and tor browser’s are for.

      Seems absolutely bonkers that any corporation would be digging back that far for media pirates. Absolute waste of time.

    • Rufio@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      They might be looking for something specific. Like they are investigating an individual, or network of individuals, and this is just a piece of that investigation. I doubt they are asking for this to randomly look for opportunities to charge people with a crime related to piracy.