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Originally Posted by nogle
It seems to me that if the criminals are freely congregating somewhere, this would be an ideal location to do some investigations.
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So do you see The Pirate Bay to be an ideal location for the police to investigate illegal downloaders? What would be their investigative tools? Get subpoenas to trace back IP addresses, perhaps? Then get individual court orders to go into people's houses, confiscate their computers, and make a forensic examination of their hard drives?
I would say no to the above, because it is too expensive.
I'd be OK with something like the French system, although I don't think fines need to be that high. The idea of warnings followed by slowing down your internet connection, planned for the US later this year, seems about right to me.