>>12015122By the way, this will never happen procedurally. Although I'm a veteran federal litigator, it's not for securities transaction - but the procedural suppositions are horseshit.
1. It is highly unlikely that there will be litigation related to this.
2. Fighting off discovery. You'll get 3-5 interrogatories at most. An interrogatory is a demand to provide written answers to discovery questions.
3. Federal Rule of Evidence 402 prohibits the use of any matter that is unrelated to the cause of action, here securities...fuckery. FRE 403 expressly forbids the use of highly prejudicial matter.
4. What is a VPN? Courts do not require you to ever 'guess' concerning discovery documents. If there is a case involving this years into the future, and you don't have your TCP/IP transactions logged, they're gone. This is called spoliation.
5. Judges try to avoid hammering non-businesses. In my field, we ran into this in the early 2000s from the NAPSTER/LIMEWIRE fiascos. Judges were hitting consumers with maximum fines and there was a lawyer backlash. That was one of the rare instances of judges 'throwing the book' at independents.
