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HansTWN · 05-06-2012, 03:03 AM

You are forgetting something. TerryH can easily prove that he wasn't at home every noon, but at work. And his children were at school. So the police doesn't arrest him but sets up a trap to check who is downloading from his connection every day at that time. And you get caught.

Besides, you can hack into his network, but why would you copy everything to his hard drive? You can't watch it from there. You need to download it to your PC and then take it home to watch it. Why stay the extra time to copy the movies over to his HD? Quite an unlikely scenario, all of this. A search of his hard disks will come up empty. And everything can be explained so that TerryH doesn't have to pay the fine.

The IP address is strong evidence, obviously not final proof. And a good lead to follow to get to the bottom of things.

05-06-2012, 03:03 AM	#172
HansTWN Wizard Posts: 4,538 Karma: 264065402 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Taiwan Device: HP Touchpad, Sony Duo 13, Lumia 920, Kobo Aura HD	You are forgetting something. TerryH can easily prove that he wasn't at home every noon, but at work. And his children were at school. So the police doesn't arrest him but sets up a trap to check who is downloading from his connection every day at that time. And you get caught. Besides, you can hack into his network, but why would you copy everything to his hard drive? You can't watch it from there. You need to download it to your PC and then take it home to watch it. Why stay the extra time to copy the movies over to his HD? Quite an unlikely scenario, all of this. A search of his hard disks will come up empty. And everything can be explained so that TerryH doesn't have to pay the fine. The IP address is strong evidence, obviously not final proof. And a good lead to follow to get to the bottom of things. Last edited by HansTWN; 05-06-2012 at 03:11 AM.