Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders

bricko writes "A federal appeals court says copyright-infringing downloaders can now be outed. If you use or have used P2P, this may interest you. From Wired: 'The RIAA detected what it claimed to be infringing activity on an IP address the university linked to the student. The unidentified student moved to quash a federal judge’s order that the university forward the student’s identity to the RIAA. The student asserted a First Amendment right of privacy on the Internet, in addition to a fair-use right to the six music tracks in question. The appeals court ruled in the RIAA’s favor (PDF) after balancing a constitutional right to remain anonymous against a copyright owner’s right to disclosure of the identity of a possible “trespasser of its intellectual property interest."'"

Comments

Re:Title is nonsense

[Gr8Apes]

But you can't be responsible for what some thief does with it, much the same as you are not responsible for what a thief does with you car....

(Yes, I'm aware that there are conditions on those statements. Let's pretend you didn't do anything to "enable" the thief)

Re:Title is nonsense

[Anonymous Coward]

No, a better title would be "JEWISH judge prosecutes anybody who isn't paying enough money to his JEWISH parasitic friends, who just happen to run your government and your media..."

Re:How can he claim a right to privacy?

[DaveV1.0]

an improper argument does not imply its results are wrong.

A fallacious argument DOES imply that the results are wrong. Suggesting otherwise is foolishness.

We have the right to peaceful assembly, and last time I checked that didn't come with a clause saying "monitored by the government" after it.

Show me where is says that government monitoring of such peaceful assembly is absolutely prohibited.

Try just living at home. Want to walk from the shower to the bedroom naked? Don't, someone could be looking in your windows and press charges, and you could be classified as a sexual predator and the rest of your life is ruined.

That is false.

Have you ever actually tried to walk around and find a place where you could not be seen by cameras?

It is not hard where I live or where my family lives. Maybe you are just paranoid.

The standards for searches are practically non-existent, illegally obtained evidence is always used, and your local municipality can tell you what brand of toothpaste you are allowed to buy.

Citations needed.