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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by zzzcpan on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:01AM (#12143029)
Possibly, especially given how easy it is to get a sock puppet, but not necessarily. If I remember correctly KAT was even hosted in Ukraine at the beginning and no one in Ukraine was really hiding back then.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by herbst on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:08AM (#12143056)
Thats a good point and relativates it a bit. Afaik also privacy protection was rather expensive and rare, not as today for $2 (or even free) with any new domain.
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Re:Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torren... by Cenk on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:01PM (#12144361)
But could he not just have put any name into the WHOIS?
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