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Out of interest, why would the cops come to your house?

It’s not like you can deliver LSD digitally, so there would have to be a shipping address.

If you neighbor is shipping you LSD then you have a different problem: free LSD and/or a neighbor issue.

As to a proper solution, please refer to my above comment about registering a business and keeping the Internet connection in the name of the business.

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The GP's example may be bad, but there are plenty of other computer crimes. Hacking, violent threats, child porn, selling LSD...

Yes, and that’s why you keep home and business addresses separate.

There are established procedures for law enforcement to contact ISPs to get the required information and that’s when you present your logs.

... we're talking about community mesh networks in NYC, right? That doesn't seem like it could work if every participant needs to rent commercial space to the tune of five figures per month just to place an antenna there?

1/ You do not need to rent commercial space to get a business address, a P.O. Box or similar will suffice.

2/ The ISP only needs a single business address, not multiple registered addresses for all their sites.

3/ This thread isn’t specific to NYC Mesh, but the same principles apply

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