arstechnica.com— The MPAA is off the hook in a wiretapping case brough by TorrentSpy after it paid $15,000 for 34 pages of private TorrentSpy e-mails. Illegal? No. Shady? Like a hundred year old elm.
Sep 3, 2007View in Crawl 4
Private detectives have been going through waste paper bins for years and evidence is evidence. Does not mean the ex-employee is immune to be also prosecuted. One must remember that the legal profession makes much more if there are a series of legal suits - and how hard is it for the recording industry to license superior distribution technology rather than victimizing the curious punter trying to keep up with the latest trends in media?
Besides its very hard to track down who owns an email address since most of them are with hotmail/gmail type accounts, and I know I don't put down real information when signing up to that stuff.They would have to go through every email provider / ISP in order to get any information from them anyway and chances are for the online ones it will be at most an ip address and they will need to then go through the ISP as well.From actual emails they can get your IP but they can already do that through BitTorrent etc...
nalexSep 4, 2007
Private detectives have been going through waste paper bins for years and evidence is evidence. Does not mean the ex-employee is immune to be also prosecuted. One must remember that the legal profession makes much more if there are a series of legal suits - and how hard is it for the recording industry to license superior distribution technology rather than victimizing the curious punter trying to keep up with the latest trends in media?
tech42erSep 4, 2007
Well, it's a simile.
haiduzSep 4, 2007
brilliant
gigaSep 4, 2007
When they say "f**k" like that it generally is some form of admission that they were using it illegally.
Closed AccountSep 4, 2007
Besides its very hard to track down who owns an email address since most of them are with hotmail/gmail type accounts, and I know I don't put down real information when signing up to that stuff.They would have to go through every email provider / ISP in order to get any information from them anyway and chances are for the online ones it will be at most an ip address and they will need to then go through the ISP as well.From actual emails they can get your IP but they can already do that through BitTorrent etc...