This isn’t about identifying a particular user, it’s about showing that Frontier does nothing to quell piracy by its users and thus provides an incentive to pirates to use their network.
And most IPV4 addresses are vague and only give a coarse location of where you are, and they're typically shared among many others so an IP is not a guaranteed signal that it was 'you' who pirated stuff.
> And most IPV4 addresses are vague and only give a coarse location of where you are
That's not true, you can request/compel Frontier to tell you what specific customer that IP was assigned to at a given time.
> and they're typically shared among many others so an IP is not a guaranteed signal that it was 'you' who pirated stuff.
Most residential ISPs in the states have 1 ipv4 (and possibly ipv6) assigned per customer and don't CGNAT, from my brief research Frontier doesn't seem to use CGNAT at least for residential internet.
No, I know the line and have always been careful not to cross it. On the contrary, I resent them for the Gestapo tactics in retaliation for legal speech. I'm aware of my relative lack of anonymity online. You don't know who I am, I'm absolutely positive the feds do.
For security purposes you should of course assume they do indefinitely. In practice I'm pretty sure every US ISP does, at least on the timescale of 30d+. I don't think the US officially has a retention requirement but I think Canada does.
