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Originally Posted by TygerTyger  The only way that would be possible is if your ISP handed over the records corresponding to past use of your IP address, and even then you are only personally identifiable if you are the only person using that connection and even then it could not be conclusively proven it was actually you at the controls.
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It is impossible for ISPs to be the police, the honus is entirely on the website service. |
This seems to be going contrary to what is happening with virgin and the bittorrent debacle. ISP's are being forced into policing this area and they are acting as proxy's for other people interests.
The standard of proof is also lower and it seems that their is a presumption oif guilt
@Vger
as well as "massive" it said "alleged" also
but just because this government is going all out to erode civil liberties it does not mean that we should just give in and accept the Orwellian future.
If viacom are looking at traffic patterns to see what is happening then anonymised logs would be sufficient. But at the moment they want the IP addresses.