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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
again, nobody has any business monitering my traffic just in case i might be uploading a book to The Darknet. my privacy is important to me, and i don't want it compromised, and ESPECIALLY not for such issues as potential copyright infringement, since i also have not seen ANY evidence supporting the alarmist proclamations that The Darknet will kill all creation. in fact, the (completely empiric, granted, but nonetheless ONLY) evidence i have seen, would tend to prove the opposite.
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That wasn't what I asked you.
If I discover that a person is illegally offering one of my books for download on the internet, do you believe that I should have a right to discover the identity of that person to allow me to prosecute them? I believe that I should have that right. At present, it is denied me unless I am some "mega-corporation" who can afford to take the ISP to court to force them to hand over the person's personal details. That seems WRONG to me. The criminal is seen as having a "right" to anonymity while the rights of the "victim" of the crime (the author) are being ignored.