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US Lawyers Target Swedish Pirate, and His Unicorn

Posted by timothy on from the please-make-this-into-a-movie dept.

Chaonici writes "When a Swedish citizen identified as Ryan heard about US movie studio Liberty Media's plan to get copyright infringers to confess and voluntarily pay up, he couldn't stop himself from sending them a satirical email promising that he will pay 'from the pot of gold I got at the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow', regardless of scathing criticism of the studio from his unicorn. However, despite his location, the jesting nature of the email, and his insistence that he has never downloaded anything for which the studio is suing, Liberty Media's lawyers have taken the 'confession' seriously, and have issued a subpoena to Google for personal information related to Ryan's Gmail account. In a phone call, the legal team affirmed their determination to 'hunt him down, all the way to Sweden if need be.'"

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  1. Re:New gmail account + Tor by Securityemo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, tor transparent proxy support FTW. Add:

    AutomapHostsOnResolve 1
    TransPort 9040
    DNSPort 5300

    to torrc, and then:

    sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -t nat -p tcp ! -d 127.0.0.1 -m owner ! --uid-owner tor -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9040
    sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -t nat -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -m owner ! --uid-owner tor -j REDIRECT --to-ports 5300
    sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -t filter ! -d 127.0.0.1 -m owner ! --uid-owner tor -j DROP

    and then just add 127.0.0.1 as nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf. There where instructions for this on the tor wiki, but it didn't work right. Doing it this way also filters all traffic for all users except tor, and allows you to use tor without sudo. These rules also assume that you don't have a lan, otherwise just add exceptions for 192.168.0.0/32, etc.

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  2. Re:New gmail account + Tor by Securityemo · · Score: 3, Informative

    To clarify, the above redirects all outgoing TCP connections and DNS resolves through Tor without needing anything else, and should block all other leaking outgoing traffic.It doesn't block identifying information being sent through Tor though, but that's a given. Bloody awesome feature, if a bit obscure.

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  3. Re:Holy Hooves, Batman! by aliquis · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!

    Yeah, and we ride them listening to Erasure.

    http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html