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Originally Posted by Sparrow
But copyright holders won't have automatic access to the logs will they?
Don't they have to go to the ISP with a name and some evidence relating to a suspected downloader first? How do they obtain that initial information?
Stustaff made the point that, on torrents, downloaders are also uploaders - but aren't they likely to be downloading a different copyright holder's (CH) material to the one their uploading? So they may be visible as uploaders; but if it's only downloading that's being looked for, how does that help the CH of the downloaded stuff, they still have nothing to justify them going to the ISP.
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With torrents, the IP of everyone who is either up or downloading a file will be visible to everyone else up or downloding that file. So if a copyright holder started to download that file they would get a list of everyone else that they could present to the ISPs. Or if they wanted they could create their own torrent and just collect the IP of everyone who trys to download it.