That was in Germany, USA or where? Just don't tell me Iceland or Sweden (with their famous Pirate Parties)..
Your friend is also a saint with cojones the size of cannon balls for doing that too.
In Poland the "take it all" strategy seems to be the default one, at least for private devices. There was once a case related to one Polish movie being shared on torrents that ended in 40 thousand confiscated PCs. The law firm hired by the movie studio gave the prosecution a list of 40 thousand IPs they said were pirating their client's movie. The prosecution gave a blanket warrant and the police got the people data from the ISPs, confiscated the computers and gave the law firm copy of the personal data so they could offer the 'pirates' a few hundred zloty settlements to not press charges.
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That was in Germany, USA or where? Just don't tell me Iceland or Sweden (with their famous Pirate Parties)..
Your friend is also a saint with cojones the size of cannon balls for doing that too.
In Poland the "take it all" strategy seems to be the default one, at least for private devices. There was once a case related to one Polish movie being shared on torrents that ended in 40 thousand confiscated PCs. The law firm hired by the movie studio gave the prosecution a list of 40 thousand IPs they said were pirating their client's movie. The prosecution gave a blanket warrant and the police got the people data from the ISPs, confiscated the computers and gave the law firm copy of the personal data so they could offer the 'pirates' a few hundred zloty settlements to not press charges.
C.f. frivolous DMCA on YouTube reviews and this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14904149
So much for warrants when it comes to allegations of piracy.
Polish link for the 40k PCs case for anyone interested: https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Juz-40-tys.-polskich-internauto...