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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Adult video-sharing list leaked from law firm
It's hitting the mainstream news media already.
Funny twist on this story is hackers, who I assume are pirates, had no hesitation in hacking into the aw firms computers, grabbing the files of those sharing and post the names and addresses on the Internet. 
That will do a lot to make people think about pirating. You might get caught and pirates might expose you to all your neighbors. 
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That's pretty stupid for many reasons.
First, they are going against the torrent users and not the torrent OWNERS. Also, after the Viacom-Youtube and other cases, other sites like tubes are inmune.
Second, an historic IP has absolutely no effect. Most broadband isps have Dynamic IP's, which means that if your IP was tracked 2 days ago, you can't trace it anymore, you can't proof that one IP was used by that guy, because that guy has now a different IP, there is no such thing like "tracing history", this IP was in that location at that time. That doesn't exists at all.
Also, the user can say that someone used his wireless router to access the internet.
It's practically impossible to prove something like that.
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