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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

sh.itjust.works is Canadian, just FYI. You may already know that, but for those who don't....

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Yep and we're part of Fedecan now.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35952239

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago

Most TLDs basically mean nothing because there's nobody who enforces what they mean. .tv domains, for example, is the TLD for the country Tuvalu, but I dare you to find me a website for the Tuvalu people ending in it.