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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Where it the judicial review? Where is the process? Where is the right to appeal?
As you know, an IP address can be spoofed VERY FUCKING easily. Secure wifi can be cracked in 2 hours with open source tools.
They will be restricting/removing service for people the RIAA *say* are infringing.
That's all.
I prefer that old fashioned thing for criminals, what is it again, oh yes. Proof.
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I don't know about judicial review or what process they will be using. I just read the story and thought it was an interesting way to deal with it. Would you rather have it this way and defend yourself against possibly losing your ISP connection or would you rather it be a lawsuit asking for huge damages? To me the lawsuits are the hammer, this is more like the poke.
If you get the email or the pop up accusing you of piracy and really are innocent of any wrong doing I would assume you could contact your ISP explain this to them and perhaps they could look into it and find out what is going on.
Really, and be 100% honest here, how often do you think individuals encrypted WiFi connections are forced hacked so that the hacker can use the WiFi to download pirated movies and music? I'm sure it has happened but I would assume it is pretty rare especially when they could just drive down the street and likely find a completely unsecured WiFi connection to use. A few months ago I was at my brother's house helping my niece setup her laptop. When I went to connect to the WiFi they had in the house there were at least half a dozen other signals that I could reach that belonged to the various neighbors. Two of them had no security at all on them. I could see how someone like that could have their WiFi used for downloading, but I think the cases of people getting encrypted WiFi hacked for the purpose of downloading is pretty damn rare.
We can go back to the way you want it. The old fashioned way. With this technique the RIAA will decide that you are infringing and without warning they will file a suit against you asking for potentially thousands of dollars in damages and now you get the pleasure of hiring a lawyer and defending yourself against this and if you do win the case then you get to hope that your lawyer will get his fees paid by them. Even if it all works out in your favor and win the case how many hours of your time and how much stress are you going go through dealing with that? If you truly are innocent wouldn't you rather have them notify you that they think you are downloading and you can find out what is going on and put an end to it before anything gets started?