> Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy.
Does that mean reddit stores ip addresses for 7 years? That seems excessive.
Does that mean reddit stores ip addresses for 7 years? That seems excessive.
As for the reason for 7 years worth of data, I think that's because the firm wants to go back and search for infringing acitivity on all those IP addresses due to dynamic IP updates and so forth. If the user is still active on Reddit the more recent IP addresses probably are enough to identify him if a warrant is served to the ISP. The ISPs I know only retain a link from a dynamic IP to a subscriber for one to two years max.
As a bonus, anything anybody ever wrote in response to me is gone too.
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