Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses::Firms wanted seven years’ worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yes? But as the person you are responding to has mentioned, they’re not after the individuals, they’re after the “ISPs who did nothing in response to piracy complaints.”

    Having the IP address of those users will reveal which ISP they are using.

    Just run a traceroute or tracert command against any website and you can see for yourself how your connection initially goes through your ISP before branching out to the rest of the internet.