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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
As for the Audi example, seriously did you think that one through? If someone steals my car and leaves his address, yes I should be allowed to get his address.
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an ip address is not equal to a physical address
the RIAA has sued a printer and a dead person
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02...ead/print.html
the problem is that the real offender in those cases was some hacker who accessed the network and the accused was simply an innocent victem too.
It would be the equivalent of government getting access to all your banking information
and if they find that little john stole his dad's credit card to access your site, you going to jail for selling porn to minors.