Yes the IP was just a DO vps I setup to be a Tor exit.

That's why they requested my personal account information, billing info, IPs that I logged into DO with, all of that.

If not interrupted by me getting the help of the amazing EFF lawyers, the next step after getting my personal information, could have been to raid my home and seize all my electronics. I work from home and would have been greatly disrupted and not been able to work without my computers and etc. Then I'd have to wait months/years to be found innocent and then get all of my electronics back + spend thousands on lawyers.

During all of this, the EFF lawyers straight up told me to prepare my home as if it were to be raided and encrypt all my devices.

Thankfully it did not come to that.

In jurisdictions whose ISP laws I'm familiar with, ISPs have a special protection granted: they don't get raided because they're seen as an infrastructure provider, but only as long as they can point to a customer responsible for some given traffic when served a court order.