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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by florencia 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 19 points 3 weeks ago

It's not very difficult to parse through database data for specific usernames and comments/upvotes related to that.

A determined judge would just make you pay for the time it takes to do so.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn't cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.