I’m wondering the same thing. The only thing I can think of is being able to correlate times, ports, and traffic volume from some origin, to some VPN node, then look for near identical data coming from that node to an ISP, and then on down the chain to identify the victi-err, I mean “person” accused of being a bad actor.

So I wonder: would the copyright nazis be able to use this kind of data corollary in court against an accused defendant? If the offense is civil I could see it being admissible since the burden of proof is lower (just has to be “fairly likely” AFAIK, but IANAL) than in criminal court. Though I don’t know if copyright infringement is a civil or criminal charge, and trust may depend on state.

Still, at best they could only match up pieces of the chain to dates times and data sizes, not see the actual data being transmitted over that connection (broken/weak crypto withstanding). But that might be enough to further persecute fair use, not to mention since other very dark stuff.