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Screenshots are terrible proof. They were however used in a Swedish piracy court case many years ago. That led to someone building the "proof machine"[1] which created screenshots of BitTorrent clients with any IP you entered. Try it:

[1] http://lekplatsen.org/bevismaskinen/




See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_evidence

It could bring you into more problems than you started with.


Yes, this was a FTL proof of concept that was meant to show how worthless screenshots are as evidence.




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