Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
by SoftTalker on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:41PM
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What about when the police show up because some highly illegal content was traced to your IP address? Will they believe that you were the unwitting victim of a rogue proxy server running on your streaming stick? Would you have even been aware of that possibility?
Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
by xorcist on Thursday July 30, 2026 @06:33PM
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There's also always the flip side: When the police shows up because of your illegal acitivities, you have a rogue proxy server running. All bought in good faith of course.
Not legal advice.
(It would surprise me greatly if we as a society let these gadgets be sold openly from here on.)
Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
by ndsipa_pomu on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:57AM
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That shows the problem or trying to link an IP address to an individual.
Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
by inigyou on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:36AM
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Believe it or not, that is what happens when the police show up to the house of a primary school teacher. They will think they have the wrong address. Even US police.
The cybercrime raids happen when they run into someone who looks like a hacker and has a lot of computers.
You have to be able to show damages you incurred and assign a dollar value to them to sue people.
That doesn’t work at all for a something that sells your bandwidth to a proxy service. People wouldn’t even be aware that it was happening they weren’t told.