Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaa. Wheeeezeeee. Cough. Hahahahahhahahahahahaha.
I've run networks for years, and getting an IP address back to my physical location or name would require MUCH more than a movie is worth.
I'm not advocating or approving stealing intellectual property. You want to watch a movie, buy it or rent it.
But the naiveté of that statement just made the old hacker in me laugh.
/johnny
It's not true, but would this be a valid defense?
That assumes that the studio (or the ISP) wants to know who *really* was controlling the computer at the time of the incident. (and that's impossible, short of fingerprint readers that lock you out unless you keep proving your identity every few minutes, and assuming that the computer is trusted.)
But the most likely scenario is that the ISP will just report the name of the person who pays the bill, and let the court sort the rest out.
Who would be stupid enough to download a film?
I mean actually download a movie rather than watch it on some megavideo site.
There is a difference between someone streaming a film on some website and downloading it, this article does not make that distinction clear.
Studios missed the ballgame back when tv was starting out, now they are missing the game with the internet.
Just find a sweet spot like the 99 cent iTunes for movies, and people will be glad to pay for them. Just not twenty bucks for an internet movie.
Can’t they track the location of those who downloaded them via torrents? Isn’t it technically possible?
I thought there were logs to trace all that stuff.
I’ve always wondered about how that works, tho, given that non-static IP addresses get recycled every 8 hours or so. That’s gotta make it way more difficult to track it down.