Quote:
Originally Posted by Rochard
Generally speaking in the US if you get a ticket it means you speak directly to the police officer, and they check your ID.
If it's a photo ticket, you get the ticket in the mail. Again, at that point, you either pay the fine or show up in court and prove it wasn't you. Same thing with a parking ticket. If your friend drives your car into the city and gets a parking ticket, you get the ticket in the mail afterwards. Again, either pay the fine or prove it wasn't you - and good luck proving it wasn't you.
It's no different than with someone downloading content. Someone using a computer as this IP address that traces back to your house downloaded content illegally without paying for it, and someone is responsable - most likely the owner of the computer or maybe even the person who pays the cable connection.
It's just like finding drugs in your house. If the cops raid my house and find a stash of drugs and I can't tell them who it belongs to, they arrest the owner of your house.
|
Exactly, also like pulling someone over and there is drugs found in the car, the driver gets nailed with it almost all the time even if it was one of the passengers who hide it under the seat. The examples can go on and on. The ip going back to the owner is really no different. If it isn't the person who pays the internet bill then chances are it is someone in the house or that they know. At that point the guilty part will step up or be outed by the person being accused. If someone really didn't do it I would hope they would fight it and either turn in the person who did or defend themselves if they really weren't behind it.
I can guarantee you if someone hacked my connection and downloaded some videos I would fight it and win. 9 out of 10 times the guilty party either settles or ignores it because they know they were guilty. The people who respond back vigerously that they really didn't do it and that they will fight them or make them prove their case in court will probably never get sued.
Remember, these attorneys get paid on contingency and they are dealing with large volumes here. The time, resources and money it takes to drag one person to court and try to prove it they could have made 1000x more money from getting 100s of people to settle. Its a numbers game, they don't want to go to court any more than you do. Its like they are shooting at a flock of birds with a shot gun, not a pistol. So what if they miss a few its just too easy to point the shot gun up and pull the trigger and hit 100 than it is to take the time to aim a pistol and try to shoot them out of the sky one at a time.