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Originally Posted by hrosvit
I really believe that it is preferable that 10 guilty people go free rather than one innocent person be convicted. And I think that possibility is too great if we just use an IP address to determine guilt.
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Let me ask you a question, if I may. Consider this scenario:
I live alone. I'm an IT professional, and have been for 30-odd years. I have a properly secured wireless network (WPA2, lengthy string of completely random characters for a passphrase). Nobody but me ever uses my computers. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that if copyrighted material is downloaded via my IP connection then I'm the one who did the deed.
Now, let's suppose I'm a pirate. I think to myself, "aha! If I remove the encryption from my WiFi, I've got a 'get out of jail free' card. If anyone tries to prosecute me for copyright infringement, all I have to do is say that someone else must have used by WiFi without my knowledge!"
True or not?
If true, it's a sad state of affair, to my mind
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