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Irish High Court Orders ISPs To Turn Over Names Of File Sharing Account Holders
from the but-what-does-it-mean? dept
eoinmonty writes in to let us know that the Irish High Court has ruled that ISPs in Ireland need to hand over the information on 23 people that IRMA, the Irish equivalent of the RIAA, is accusing of copyright infringement via unauthorized file sharing. This isn't all that surprising, given similar rulings in other countries, but as some people are already noting, the same questions should still be raised. Just because IRMA has IP addresses is hardly evidence that infringement definitely took place, and even if infringement did take place, an IP address simply identifies the account holder, not who might have been using that connection at the time the alleged infringement took place. Somehow, though, we doubt that this will stop the recording industry from moving ahead with lawsuits.
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IRMA?
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Gigatribe spammers
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Just Say No
Yeah the gigatrash spam is annoying. Plus it is not any good at keeping secrets. FreeNet thought it was secure too.
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Not as simple as you think
You do realize how trivially easy it is to spoof someone's IP address right? If any two bit hacker can do it to get around spam filters I doubt a file sharing system would be much harder.
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