Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP Addresses

Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by martinced on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:23AM (#5343253)

It's not really "solved" as long as the technologies are too complicated to use for the regular user.

It's good that the legal framework allowing anonymity is already in place in some countries (like Germany and... Even the EU seems to be going in this direction) but technically it's complicated.

I don't expect regular people to know how to connect to free public WiFi hotspots and then to use Tor and browser(s) able to dodge Panopticlick-like detection anytime soon.

This may come at one point but we're not there yet and we probably won't be there anywhere soon seen that there are big governments out there determined to crush for fun and profit the very notion of anonimity.

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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by eksith on Friday March 08, 2013 @08:40AM (#5343335)

Germany is still a complicated case since, even though they value anonymity and privacy, they're by and large quite happy to prosecute for infringement. And the threshold for that infringement is still a bit murky. That's not to say, I condone piracy, but we have far too many cases of people being punished for fair use and/or disproportionately.

Using Tor has now become fairly straightforward with the Browser Bundle and I expect similar packages to be available for mobile devices soon.

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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by jiggy2011 on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:09AM (#5343453)

Another big obstacle is that there is no way to run tor on iOS without a jailbreak.

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