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Originally Posted by SpicyM
If you go to an internet cafe with free wifi connection how are they going to track you? Even if the cafe has security cams installed, there is no evidence which notebook was using the dynamic IP at the time. You would have to be the only person with notebook sitting there at the time to get accused, right?
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99% of the time, the thieves aren't at an internet cafe. Let's say they were, though. In some of these cases, the same people have come back twenty times or more, sometimes getting $1 trials and ripping the site, sometimes buying a full membership, ripping, then charging back, sometimes using stolen passwords. From the CC transactions and the associated emails the plaintiff knows who these people are. When they ban the person's home IP and the next day there is the same kind of activity from a cafe a block away from the person's house, the jury can connect the dots.
In addition, the site owner might email the known crook, trolling them about it. When the crook replies "Fuck you. You can't stop me. I just posted eight more of your videos this morning", that pretty much makes the case.