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Originally Posted by d-null
isn't the "open wifi" defense enough of a reasonable doubt defense that any conviction would be unlikely? are you legally responsible by precedent for anything that happens on your ip even if others gain access it, are you legally required by law to strongly encrypt access to your router?
just asking
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Not if the ip matches that same persons Join IP, the download ip, and the upload ip.
This stuff is very easy to correlate. Unless the guy that lives next door to you has stolen your identity, your credit cards, and your home address as well as hacking your wifi, then it's open and shut. You forget...I can see all the info of every member. So I know their join ip, and I see them logging in everytime and see the ip they log in from. So I know that person HAS to match. They can't just join a site on a hacked wifi and get away with it because we have all their personal info on file already. So we aren't just looking for an IP address...we're looking for the actual person who joined and downloaded it and then re-uploaded it. And since we also use geo-ip password protection....nobody can log in from someplace different with that user/pass and do the deed either.
Not going after any "maybe" cases. We go after the ones that are positively identified in every way. It's slam/dunk. And again...those surfer forums that hurt us for so long? They are now my friend. Those morons IDENTIFY THEMSELVES as the ones who uploaded it and ask for the other members of the forum to reply with "Thanks" everytime one of them downloads it. Low hanging fruit. And POSITIVE identification via self-incrimination.