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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Let me shed some light on this:
An auto is illegally parked and is issued a ticket (a civil infraction and not a crime) — his auto was parked illegally even if he did not drive it personally.
The same car is involved in a fatal accident — vehicular manslaughter — that is a criminal offense (involuntary or with intent (depends on the circumstances)). The owner will not be convicted of vehicular manslaughter unless the state can prove he was actually driving the car.
Copyright infringement (barring aggravating circumstance) is a civil tort — a civil lawsuit and not an indictable criminal offense.
You may call this blackmail and some will agree. A damaged Plaintiff (read copyright holder) would say he simply wants compensation for the theft of his property.
Who is right here?
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but the point is that ip address as proof has been knocked down.
with an open wifi it actually any machine within 150 feet (given range, and lackluster encryption standards)
so it really like saying that your get a ticket for parking your car illegally, because your car is the same color as the car parked illegally.
That the point
an ip address is not proper identification (the equilvalent of a licience plate registered to the owner)
you can blame the DMCA btw, by making it illegal to circumvent encryption, they pretty much killed the advancement of encryption key, of course hacking tools didn't stop improving (and neither did processing power) so the encryption keys that would have stopped a brute force attack 10 years ago do shit against the current tools.