> First, editorialized headlines are not allowed by site rules
Apologies. I suppose I should have known this, but I didn't (I've seen many such headline over the years).
> But the ruling doesn't threaten to ambiguously target people who just change an IP to get around an ordinary IP
ban.
If this ruling sticks, I can imagine that instead of blacklisting an IP, standard practice will be to return a web page saying "you are hereby notified...".
How do you legally notify someone if all you know is their IP? (serious question, IANAL)
> How do you legally notify someone if all you know is their IP? (serious question, IANAL)
That is a great question, but the case you linked had zero such ambiguity, and in fact is one of the more straightforward CFAA rulings I've ever seen on HN.
> How do you legally notify someone if all you know is their IP? (serious question, IANAL)
I don't know about legally, but Wikipedia keeps informing me that I have a new message. When I look, it's an IP-based user talk page and the message is from 2008. I'd naively consider that sufficient, but maybe a better-informed legal scholar with technical chops wouldn't.
I mean... I wasn't even living at this address or subscribed to this internet provider in 2008.
You have to find their upstream and subpoena their DHCP (or equivalent) records. That's what the plaintiffs in the P2P lawsuits have been trying to do. You may not be successful for a variety of reasons. In that case this ruling would not apply.
Not the ruling is precedent anyway, since it is a district court (lowest federal court) order.
Apologies. I suppose I should have known this, but I didn't (I've seen many such headline over the years).
> But the ruling doesn't threaten to ambiguously target people who just change an IP to get around an ordinary IP ban.
If this ruling sticks, I can imagine that instead of blacklisting an IP, standard practice will be to return a web page saying "you are hereby notified...".
How do you legally notify someone if all you know is their IP? (serious question, IANAL)