An IP address is not a Social Security number or a fingerprint. It, in the words of Judge Gary Brown, "provides only the location at which one of any number of computer devices may be deployed, much like a telephone number can be used for any number of telephones."
For those who believe that using the BitTorrent protocol for piracy is a young person’s game, you might want to know about a San Francisco woman risking a potential $150,000 fine for torrenting porn.
Remember that huge anti-piracy initiative targeting all the people who illegally downloaded The Hurt Locker? Well, that was just a small part of a much larger crackdown happening across the country.
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker from last year, is apparently pursuing legal action against 24,583 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading the video game-esque war thriller.
Did you illegally download a copy of The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s old-school macho get-together fight-fest from last year? If so, watch your inbox: You’re likely one of the more than 23,000 file sharers being sued for doing so by the US Copyright Group in what is now the largest BitTorrent downloading case in US legal [...]
BitTorrent is regarded as a dirty word in Hollywood, because the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol is often used for distributing pirated movies.
Net neutrality. There are two sorts of Americans: Those who not only know the term, but have been closely monitoring the ongoing Net neutrality debate, and those who have no idea what I’m talking about.
