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> If a one-person outfit happens to be skimming the logs and notices "Oh, neat, that's a lot of IP addresses from Germany," did they just do analytics? Yes. H
by rrdharan 3y ago
> If a one-person outfit happens to be skimming the logs and notices "Oh, neat, that's a lot of IP addresses from Germany," did they just do analytics?
Yes.
However enforcement is intentionally discretionary and selective and hence sensitive / prone to political, protectionist and sentimental whims. Your 1 person outfit in Europe is less likely to suffer in actual court, or the court of public opinion, than a big bad American tech company will.
- shadowgovt 3y agoMaybe it's just personal preference, but I find "This criminalizes a very common behavior, but don't worry, prosecutors will use broad discretion while enforcing it and only enforce it on the right sort of people" to be very, very disquieting. It's how you get war-on-drugs-level legal atrocities.