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Originally Posted by peeperpimp
WOW This Thread is still going strong....
Anyway, GatorB U stated...
and I really don't want to get into a heavy disqussion bout it, but I beg to difer, have to say I run my own network and right now with bout 4 or 5 laptops currently connected... (@ this moment, still early)
and each individual machine has its own wireless IP address assigned to it even though its all on my network / router...
so if one of them is my neighbors and he DL's CP its his machine and wireless IP that'll be traced regardless of who is providing the connection...
So I'd be considered the unofficial ISP in that case and they might come to me to find out who the ip bellongs to, (since its my router providing the connection) but I'm sure I wont be the one getting in trouble for it, unless it was one of my machines on my premisses
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That's the standard for sure, EXCEPT there are exceptions. That's several cases I've run into in the past year. People thinking only a certain number of computers were on their wireless but finding out later there were more. I don't know all the particulars but that's what was going on. Piggybackers not showing up, masking IPs, etc. These people are good! They busted several in my neighborhood who would be like a mile away from the source signal and using some sort of booster and masking devices. The ones that got busted got busted for not just piggybacking but for the typical stuff like cp and mostly pirating software/hacking.
It's a highly technical area that one safeguard today gets beaten tomorrow and so on.