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Legal consequences of using I2P? (feddit.org)
submitted 4 months ago by sp3ctre@feddit.org to c/i2p@lemmy.world
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Hey guys,

I am running an I2Pd-Node on my raspberry pi somewhere in Germany and I am loving it so far.

About the ethical implications I am at peace with me, because I know, that it's not possible to allow good things without allowing the bad things too.

Sometimes I am a little bit concerned about, what a paranoid government could do. Technically - I don't know what I am forwarding. And since we're not talking about providing an exit-node (to clear-net) like we usually do with Tor, the risk should be greatly reduced as well.

As far as I know, theoretically this scenario could be possible: A large marketplace for illegal stuff appears within the I2P-Network. Law enforcement connects to it and tries to identify the "hops" between them and the marketplace (one by one) and my node is one of it. I know how crazy this sounds. Not very likely, but not impossible as well.

How do you think about this? Are there any recommended precautions you could take to prove you're not the criminal, if LE surprisingly knocks at your door?

~sp3ctre

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[-] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If the cops come knocking, just make sure you're not actually doing anything illegal, because processing encrypted data is not. All your computer is doing is taking in encrypted data, fucking with it, and spitting it back out. You don't see the contents of it. You can't know what is happening, so neither can they.

Sincerely, long-time hoster of Tor and I2P nodes in Denmark.

[-] sp3ctre@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Good to hear!

Not sure about Danish Law, but in Germany we've got the "Störerhaftung" (transl. disturber liability) which says that individuals can be held liable as disturbers for enabling third-party legal violations (such as copyright infringement) even it they are not the direct perpetrator.

So far, I only heard about it in some copyright cases. Also not clear, if it could be applied on I2P, because it was more a torrenting thing...

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