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Originally Posted by JoeD
The owner might be responsible to an extent, but they're not fully responsible for all penalties. For example, if you get a parking ticket, you're not responsible if you were not the one driving, you don't have to prove you were not the one driving, they have to prove you were.
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Not under UK law. Here, if you are the registered keeper of a vehicle, you have a legal responsibility to know who is driving it at all times. Hence, if an offence is committed by that vehicle, you are legally required to disclose the identity of the driver at that time. If you are unable to do so (or refuse to do so) you'll face prosecution as if you were the driver.
That's why I say that I think that the same principle can be (and indeed, IS, in the UK) extended to IP connections, because there is a long-established legal precedent for doing so.