How will dbzer0 handle IP subpoenas?

I'm referencing this article: https://torrentfreak.com/film-companies-seek-torrenting-history-related-to-redditor-240220/

Given that they're expanding to reddit, I was wondering how dbzer0 is setup to handle similar requests. The legal help page for dbzer0 is just an e-mail address.

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Don't know man. I'm not making enough in donations to pay for the server costs, never mind hiring lawyers. I'll deal with this when I have to 😅
- Wait really? Fuck I will donate you something. Also if you ever need legal help I know the EFF can support you on that.
- Wait, how do we donate?
  
  There's two big links in the sidebar
  
  All instances should have the donation links at the top of the sidebar tbh, and an infographic or something to show how far along they are to paying for monthly server costs.
- Do you think a warrant canary would help? Basically post something ASAP that says "I haven't been served any IP subpoenas as of today." Then, update the statement every so often unless you get served.
  
  Warrant canaries are an untested tactic
- I appreciate the candid response (though I'm not from your server).
  Here's hoping you don't anything annoying come your way.
- 5€.
It's weird, but VPNs also work for things that aren't piracy, like freedom of speech...about piracy 😁
- Until you realize your vpn provider can see everything you do
  
  Could always go to excessive measures, your own cloud hosted VPN node to hop to an external provider or similar. Unless you're a major target nobody wants to deal with multiple providers and jurisdictions.
  
  But their business model is solely based on not disclosing your info. If they do, most of all for just some silly comments on an Internet forum, be sure they are going to fail.
  
  Split tunnels are a thing friend
you cant give what you dont have. i hope their log rotation is tight.
information is risk, so i delete any information as soon as its no longer needed including logs > 36 hours
I would hope a piracy instance is hosted somewhere that doesn't care about such things as American court orders.
- Looks like it’s hosted by Lithuanian Radio and TV Center. At least that’s who owns the IP address.
  
  dbzer0? Or do you mean something else? LRTC is a public gov org, if someone is hosting a torrent tracker on their net they’re gonna have a bad time
Just don't incriminate yourself on social media. Lemmy is not private or secure. Its silly for anyone to rely on dbzer0.
Also...
"The plaintiffs have always maintained that they don’t intend to pursue legal action against the targeted Redditors."
Your probably to much of a small fish anyway...
The simple fact that lemmy federates posts will mitigate the problems posed by this. For example if they want your IP, they need to go to lemmy.today, but for mine they will need to go to tchncs.de. If we were using reddit, they would be able to get everyone's address with just one request. The more small instances there are, the harder it becomes.
- I don't understand all of how federation works, but couldn't they just roll their own instance and just collect all the data they get from federating?
  
  AFAIK they would get the info "which user said what". The source would be what ever instance you are from tho, not your own ip. So the owner of a instance knows as much as everyone else.
  
  Yes, but that data doesn't include user IPs.
@einat2346@lemmy.today actually dbzer0 doesn't have access to your IP address, only lemmy.today sees it
for everyone else it's the instance that your account lives on

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