The RIAA/MPAA madmen should not be allowed to get your IP address more or less your computer. They have no proof that anyone infringed anything related to your ip that can be tracked back to the owner of that ip, NONE!!
They purger themselves each and every time the claim such things and need to be stopped in their tracks. The jane doe lawsuits are rididulous and frivolous, even once you get that information it is useless in court, at that point they need to go through a discovery process. This is where they feel they can manipulate the court system and instill fear in the people. The court system is way to expensive for an average user to afford and very time consuming for an average person to be able to take time off of work to attend.
I leave you with this to think about, If they asked for my hdd, "now, I have 10 computers with over 30 hdd's, I could send any one of those hdd's to them and they could find nothing" I would not incriminate myself in any way and send them a hdd that I knew had nothing on maybe a linux hdd that was only used to surf the net, how would they know any difference? Like I said above, they have no evidence and are still in the discovery fase and are just fishing for something to incriminate you.
People have rights in the United States, regardless to what the RIAA/MPAA and some government contracted companies may think, they have no right to gain access to my personal information I have on a computer, even if it is just my browsing habbits. As you may know may companies thrive on gaining this information and use it to target people for sales, it is not beyond the scope of the RIAA/MPAA and the government to do this and collect it in an illegal database to be used against you at any time. Just recently the IRS is trying to get access to peoples credit card records behind peoples backs, as they have no right to do so without due process of law and aquiring a search warrant.
well, anyhow, the whole process that the RIAA/MPAA are using to get these court cases out is unconstitutional in the united States of America and the judges are letting them go ahead and this is the thing that needs to be stopped. Internet Service Providers are holders of your papers and even once these jondoe case has said the isp has to give the name of the IP over to the RIAA/MPAA in that illegal court, the ISP should send that information to the individual and that individual should have the right to fight that at that time, they are skipping a part of due process of law. At that time the isp should get the information that was used against you and provide it to the individual so that legal action can be taken against it between you and your isp in local courts to determine if the information given by the MPAA/RIAA is in fact credible enough for them to hand over your personal information to the MPAA/RIAA. In this court case you could determine that there was no proof that you personaly did violate any laws, meaning it could have been anyone tapped into or sitting in front of your computer. Then, when this was found out, you could file for damages against the person who filed suit against you in the jondoe case.
you have a right to defend yourself Period, and that is take out of the equation with these lawsuits. ISP do not have constitutional powers to hand this information over unprotected by law. Courts cannot give these ISP's constitutional powers to do so.
It is time people wake up to this.
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The RIAA/MPAA madmen should not be allowed to get your IP address more or less your computer. They have no proof that anyone infringed anything related to your ip that can be tracked back to the owner of that ip, NONE!! They purger themselves each and every time the claim such things and need to be stopped in their tracks. The jane doe lawsuits are rididulous and frivolous, even once you get that information it is useless in court, at that point they need to go through a discovery process. This is where they feel they can manipulate the court system and instill fear in the people. The court system is way to expensive for an average user to afford and very time consuming for an average person to be able to take time off of work to attend. I leave you with this to think about, If they asked for my hdd, "now, I have 10 computers with over 30 hdd's, I could send any one of those hdd's to them and they could find nothing" I would not incriminate myself in any way and send them a hdd that I knew had nothing on maybe a linux hdd that was only used to surf the net, how would they know any difference? Like I said above, they have no evidence and are still in the discovery fase and are just fishing for something to incriminate you. People have rights in the United States, regardless to what the RIAA/MPAA and some government contracted companies may think, they have no right to gain access to my personal information I have on a computer, even if it is just my browsing habbits. As you may know may companies thrive on gaining this information and use it to target people for sales, it is not beyond the scope of the RIAA/MPAA and the government to do this and collect it in an illegal database to be used against you at any time. Just recently the IRS is trying to get access to peoples credit card records behind peoples backs, as they have no right to do so without due process of law and aquiring a search warrant. well, anyhow, the whole process that the RIAA/MPAA are using to get these court cases out is unconstitutional in the united States of America and the judges are letting them go ahead and this is the thing that needs to be stopped. Internet Service Providers are holders of your papers and even once these jondoe case has said the isp has to give the name of the IP over to the RIAA/MPAA in that illegal court, the ISP should send that information to the individual and that individual should have the right to fight that at that time, they are skipping a part of due process of law. At that time the isp should get the information that was used against you and provide it to the individual so that legal action can be taken against it between you and your isp in local courts to determine if the information given by the MPAA/RIAA is in fact credible enough for them to hand over your personal information to the MPAA/RIAA. In this court case you could determine that there was no proof that you personaly did violate any laws, meaning it could have been anyone tapped into or sitting in front of your computer. Then, when this was found out, you could file for damages against the person who filed suit against you in the jondoe case. you have a right to defend yourself Period, and that is take out of the equation with these lawsuits. ISP do not have constitutional powers to hand this information over unprotected by law. Courts cannot give these ISP's constitutional powers to do so. It is time people wake up to this.