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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by etaioinshrdlu on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @05:40PM (#36064220)
You're reading this wrong - they're asking for the download activity of the suspected malicious user. Not millions of other users.

I think this displays a bias to want to assume the request is unreasonable.

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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by ewdurbin on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:52PM (#36064872)
no. they wanted the downloads by randoms. we don’t store those with IPs
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Re:PyPI Was Subpoenaed by subarctic on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:56PM (#36064903)
I think you're reading it wrong too - it says "IP download logs of any Python Package Index (PyPI) packages uploaded by the given usernames". So that's anyone who downloaded those packages, not just the specific users' download activity.
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