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.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    You should assume that dbzer0 will eventually get a legal request to turn over records.

    I assume then that dbzer0 USA owned/operated?

      • Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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        7 hours ago

        I wonder, what happens if one places a server in international waters? What jurisdiction if any does apply?

        I mean, it would be thematic to be able to place pirate stuff on the literally high seas, ya kno?

        • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          4 hours ago

          Most attacks on servers are on the connections. All IPs are owned by entities part of countries, so your IP is always under someones jurisdiction. The same is true for regulsr DNS entries, so the domain of that server.

          For getting the data however, there also isn’t any protection in international waters. Someone would just raid you and you could do nothing about it. What good is lawlessness if you don’t have the ability to enforce your own “laws” about not having your data taken away?

          You could lay low so noone bothers with that, but then you could also just lay low with regular secretive hosting.