| Re: Torrent Download - legal or not
| Quote: | |  | | | The first part isn't theoretical - it's exactly what they do, purely automated.
As for the larger offenders, that's sadly not the case. There are plenty of documented cases (including friends of mine in the states) where people have been "busted" for a one-off offense. | | | | | I confirm this. A friend of mine runs such a business. Typically you download only to identify the uploaders (and minimize legal issues for yourself).
He works with law firms to provide details and gets a split of the settlement fees. Key is preserving the chain of evidence so it works in court. The only thing needed from the ISP is confirmation of the person to link to the IP (technically there are ways also to discover this, but may not be legal/withstand legal attack in court).
We were also able to look up IPs of people we know see what stuff they'd been sharing...
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