Presumably the 5 users in question were interesting in some way, not just random.
> I would think a bad actor who would register would spoof their ip and use burner accounts anyhow
Maybe, but they could find that out with the information. If there's a 10% chance each was sloppy or un-paranoid, there's a 40% chance they get at least one piece of real info.
The person might not have thought they were doing anything wrong. Some judge might have greenlit this for a piracy case against the five maintainaers of youtube_dl{c} or something silly.
Presumably the 5 users in question were interesting in some way, not just random.
> I would think a bad actor who would register would spoof their ip and use burner accounts anyhow
Maybe, but they could find that out with the information. If there's a 10% chance each was sloppy or un-paranoid, there's a 40% chance they get at least one piece of real info.
The person might not have thought they were doing anything wrong. Some judge might have greenlit this for a piracy case against the five maintainaers of youtube_dl{c} or something silly.