Yeah, this seems like a non-issue, to me. When the ISP sees pirated traffic, they have to issue a notice to the customer, and that customer is Hampton Inn. The ISP doesn’t know or care that the end user isn’t Hampton employees. They’re just covering their ass, legally.

Don’t pirate without a proper VPN.

They will, on paper.

Add a submission fee that gets refunded as part of the bounty payout, or if the reviewer otherwise judges the submission as obviously legitimate.

Donate all fee proceeds to charity, if you want to counter the any incentive to deny submissions for financial gain.

I’m not really sure that being open source here means much of anything, but an SO alternative definitely sounds good. Thanks for the tip.