| Finally, an Attorney General that gets it The simple fact of the matter is that the *AA's are acting like the MAFIAA. They are attempting to EXTORT money from someone without following the law. NO ISP should turn over the information unless they have a WARRANT with evidence. Just looking at an IP address ISN'T enough information to get a warrant. They need to PROVE (by downloading a FULL FILE) from the source before they should be able to get a warrant. That means that if the use a torrent, they damn well better DISABLE every other peer before attempting to download the file. Just because they got PART of a file it doesn't mean the peer had the FULL FILE to serve. Just because they got PART of a file from ANY P2P connection is not proof.
Let the **AA's run their own version of a client, that will attempt to download a COMPLETE file from a client, THEN they will have enough evidence to go before a judge, otherwise they are just using illegal tactics. They only have the POTENTIAL for the file being illegally shared, not the PROOF.
If I'm 'sharing' a file called 'Prince.mp3', what does that mean? Does that mean that the **AA can sue me? Hell no. Unless they get the ENTIRE file from me, and it IS copyrighted, then they don't have a case.
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