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> VPNs and other services. Drug cartels, pedophile rings, etc.

• codedokode 7y ago
  But you have to prove that those IP addresses were used for crime. Maybe the purpose was only to earn money from reselling them.
  • SolarNet 7y ago
    And we can't. Because this person failed to follow the regulations that allow for that to be proven. It's like if I ran a car rental business, and I stole license plate numbers from random cars or made them up, and then kept no records. And then when convicted and charged you were like "but you have to prove that those license plates were used for crime". How? The whole point of the crime was to obfuscate and prevent that very action of tracking the license plates. Which is why he isn't going to jail for any additional criminal acts. But he is getting a very long sentence for the crime he committed because his crime was particularly egregious in enabling other crimes and preventing them from being discovered or tracked.