Maybe I am wrong but it seems like some of y’all aren’t reading the article. They aren’t going after IP’s in order to identify the individuals. They are trying to prove that frontier is not being proactive in their efforts to prevent piracy. The IP’s are to prove that it is going through frontier. Reddit->Frontier->Pirated content.

I am not saying I am ok with that, because I’m not, but what many of y’all are describing is happening is not exactly what is happening here.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Buddy, go bitch at the author who wrote the article that plastered all over what we're responding about.

And my point still stands - they CAN'T prove that those IP addresses would be from frontier. It's a huge whack a mole game they're getting themselves into.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What? I’m saying y’all are either misunderstanding the contents of the article or you aren’t reading it. It explains this quite clearly.

[–] Scary_le_Poo 3 points 1 year ago

Umm yeah they can... ISPs are assigned blocks of IP addresses that they they assign to their customers.

That's why you can look up any IP address and find out what provider that IP belongs to.

The IP blocks are also common knowledge so you can look up what blocks are assigned to what ISP.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And my point still stands - they CAN'T prove that those IP addresses would be from frontier.

Umm. Yes they can. Quite easily. As Frontier would have been assigned those IPs as a static set.