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Originally Posted by azazel1024
If someone used my car to rob a bank that doesn't mean I should be held liable....
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Correct, but this is not an apt analogy.
Hadopi works with the ISP's, so they might not be able to track a spoofed IP, but they can definitely figure out if it's one of their customers.
The accused in France receive an email, and then a registered letter (6 months later iirc), notifying them that they are suspected of piracy. They sent out 880,000 emails; followed by 68,000 registered letter. I.e. they nailed almost 810,000 on the first shot. After the letter, only 165 people went to the third stage, and supposedly only a fraction of them have gone before a judge.
Mistakes can happen, but it is somewhat hard to believe that you could be utterly blindsided after receiving at least one certified warning.
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Originally Posted by azazael
....one who is actively disseminating copyrighted works is a bit easier to track down and considering the much greater scope of damages I think it behooves society to attempt to investigate a bit more closely....
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The single point of contact does exist (e.g. Megaupload), but is only part of the story. Distributed P2P networks like Bittorrent have been prevalent since Napster got shut down. I.e. you can't just go after the easily targeted organizations.