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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)

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[-] horsecj1@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

No but depending on the crime and the context it can be enough to get a search warrant but for your weed hypothetical no by the time they acted on it any other evidence would be gone so there's no point in investigating unless you admitted to something bigger like growing or dealing

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