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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by tuhin on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:40AM (#2287225)
Great chain of events and the best part is there was no high tech brain work involved. I mean the guy could have done so much to at least try to wipe his trail, but I guess if he were that smart he would be making a positive impact on the world and not doing this. What got me really thinking is how GMail has his address? The language is a bit clear if Google had the address or just the name which was of the same guy who lived at Deer part as revealed by Comcast. The only possibility otherwise seems to be that this was linked to some Adsense account which contained the address for a cheque delivery perhaps?
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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by smackfu on Friday March 04, 2011 @08:33AM (#2287945)
"I guess if he were that smart he would be making a positive impact on the world and not doing this."

If he were that smart, he wouldn't have been caught, and we wouldn't be reading an article about it.

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by w1ntermute on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:50AM (#2287252)
http://vimeo.com/15492594

It's not that hard for a site to get your location.

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by mkjones on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:03AM (#2287521)
That video, while cool, is tremendously misleading. Not only does he make a lot of unlikely assumptions assumptions (it should not be that easy to get someone's apache pid), but Facebook doesn't use php's build-in session management code at all.
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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by tuhin on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:55AM (#2287263)
at least try to wipe his trail
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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by georgieporgie on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:01AM (#2287519)
Beware: that is the loudest Vimeo video ever.
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