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Re:Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for i... by pmontra on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:19AM (#39450993)
> The big concern was we’d be sued, and the emails of the opposing law firm would be going over our pipes.

You mean, the mails between the opposing law firm and their customer suing you? That would be bad.

But also the mails between any other parties not in any litigation with you. Or web requests by any random person to any random server.

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Re:Court blocks $1B copyright ruling that punished ISP for i... by pyuser583 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:32AM (#39451066)
> You mean, the mails between the opposing law firm and their customer suing you? That would be bad.

Exactly.

It would only be bad if we were snooping. Which we weren't. The moral is: don’t snoop.

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