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Old 01-18-2011, 09:51 AM  
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
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Almost every court case that has come up related to this has had subpoena records from the ISP based on the IP. You can't sue an IP - you can only sue a person - to do that, you need the information.

Same can be done with hosting companies, users on tubes (ie youtube), facebook, twitter, all have given it info on nothing more than IP and sometimes just a login/user to get the IP and a court order of course. Has happened 1000's of times.

P.S. It can all be done without the user ever knowing about it too.
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