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by dcolkitt 2632 days ago
> If you want to pirate movies and chat on facebook at the same time, you're probably gonna have a bad time.

Not really. There's not a single documented case of a major VPN user ever receiving a copyright infringement notice. Despite the fact that millions use this exact same use case.

In security it's always important to understand the threat model. If I know I'm being personally targeted by Mossad, that's a very different story than if I'm trying to avoid getting identified in a mass copyright notice from the MPAA.

Facebook would never ever ever in a million years voluntarily give the MPAA unrestricted root access to their IP level user tracking data. If they tried to subpoena it, Facebook can afford much much better lawyers than Warner Brothers.

And I guarantee that at least in the American judicial system, any judge is going to be extremely skeptical against such a sweeping request.