• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Even with an association of an identity to a VPN provider, there is no one-to-one correspondence between a person and an IP address.

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      2 hours ago

      True but that at least gives them a start point to try a prosecution that they didn’t have before. It also depends on if the VPN provider responds to a subpeona request or national/international jurisdictions.