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.

  • maxprime@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Turn over records? Is this not all public already?

    • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      IP addresses are generally not.

    • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      It is. In the fediverse everything is open otherwise federation wouldn’t work.