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Originally Posted by Rathji
I could track you if I wanted, so I assume someone who has the backing of billion of dollars worth of industry and the ability to make laws work so it would be legal sure the hell could.
On a related note: If you would pay 10 bucks an hour to use a slow or congested wireless connection to steal something from the internet, you need to either get your head checked or take some basic math/accounting classes.
On iTunes, a movie costs $20 (or $5 to rent) and an album costs $13.
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This post isn't very well thought through. First of all, even on a slow connection I could download a lot more than one album in an hour (actually most places offer 24 hours for a connection), secondly, I'd love to have you post my IP address in this thread, since you can look me up so easily. Third. Do open wifi connections not usually use 'rolling IP addresses' to hand out to clients on their network?
Having an open network at home seems to be grounds for reasonable doubt as to who exactly downloaded the content.
My point is that enforcing these piracy concerns are going to be a nightmare. People can, and will continue to find ways around things. It's too mainstream to stop.