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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
This is interesting an ruling.
http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-...person-120503/
I don't know if a ruling from a New York magistrate judge can qualify as 'landmark' but it is a kick in the nads to the RIAA. The article is fairly detailed as to the 'why' of the ruling, most of which is obvious to anyone with a router. Other judges in other cases have alluded to this issue but never have they thrown out cases based solely upon it while recommending that other judges do the same.
My current IP is 192.168.1.113
That really sums it up, doesn't it? Sure, My ISP provider gives my house a public IP addy, but once it gets to my router, it's private IP all the way down, just like turtles. My house is a bit less populated of late (with most of the boys grown and gone) but at any given time in years past, my router table had more than a dozen active private IP connections, sometimes quite a few more; desktops, laptops, ipads, xboxes, playstations, android phones. In addition to my own little potential pirates, they invite their little friend pirates over for various computer/game-related activities; every single one using my internet gateway. Add some nieces, nephews, friends and other family, I've got a potential multi-billion dollar lawsuit hanging over my head! |
To start with, ""192.168.1.113"" is not going to be visible to anyone outside your private network. If an IP address is used to track internet activity to your home, it will be through the public IP, then if additional investigation was necessary, the routing table could be pulled from the router.
In response to the legal ruling, I will have to research it further, but let us not overstate the analogy to a car's tag number. No one has ever been convicted of anything based solely on a tag number and no one ever will. If me or someone else uses my car to commit a crime and the tag number is reported, then the police will either come to my home and question me, or I will be arrested and questioned. If my neighbor across the street kills his wife and uses my car to dump the body, and a witness reports the tag number, I guarantee that there will be a deeper investigation than, oh you must have done it because your car was used.