Can RIAA Lawsuits be Blocked by Routers?

Chris Frank asks: "With the RIAA stepping up its pressure on internet sharers, what is the legal status of people behind apartment routers? With no logging of who is moving what who can the RIAA prosecute when it tracks a shared file back to that specific shared internet account? I would imagine that many Slashdot readers are behind routers that hold all of their internal IPs private to the outside world. Is the bill payer responsible for all of the users of that router? How can a person be held accountable for the actions of others, especially when there is no proof of who did what?"

Comments

Short answer

[Your_Mom]

Read your AUP for your ISP. That should tell you.

Answer

[omarius]

How can a person be held accountable for the actions of others, especially when there is no proof of who did what?

I'm not sure. Perhaps you should ask the people that crafted the RAVE Act.

Re:Answer

[afidel]

I HATE the RAVE act with a supreme passion. I had the owner of a bar that occassionally hold techno events ask me to put away my glowsticks at a Bad Boy Bill concert because the local police had harassed him and insinuated that they would shut him down and try to seize his business. Their justification was that under the RAVE act glowsticks are drug paraphanalia (under Ohio Revised Code only things that can reasonably be construed as aiding in the consumption of controlled substances are considered paraphanalia) and that they could use that as indication of drug activity at the event and shutdown the concert and sieze the establishment. If the guy wasn't so nice about it I would have gone outside flagged down a police officer and asked to be arrested. Then I would have gone to the same neighborhood with my son on holoween and demanded to be arrested again.