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Originally Posted by Azure
In order to get a name or any specific details he needs to contact my ISP. Who will tell him to screw off unless he has a court order saying that the information needs to be turned over.
And in order to get a court document you have to find a judge crazy enough to actually go along with this 'privacy' scheme.
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That's true in Canada, but no so in the United States. The RIAA has requested and received personal information from ISP's thousands of times. The ISP then routinely sends the end user a letter outlining the copyright infringement (usually through bit torrent) and either terminates their Internet service, or warns them that future violations will result in canceling of service.
The point is, the ISP turned over private information without a court order. This doesn't sit well with me, but it occurs daily in the U.S.
The whole piracy issue to me is about companies finding a business model that works. Take iTunes for example. It has become wildly popular, and if it hasn't already, it will eventually eclipse brick and mortar sales of music. You can never, ever stop piracy, but the goal is to make it simple and economical enough that most people simply won't bother. The key is making it simple. If the experience of the pirated product is better than the paying version, you have a problem. See the endless FORCED previews on Blu Ray and DVDs. This is the kind of thing that drives customers away.