RIAA Loses Retrial Appeal In Thomas Case

[SUBMAN1]

http://www.dailytech.com/RIAA+Loses+Retrial+Appeal+In+Thomas+Case/article13809.htm

Always a good thing when these Nazi's loose.

-S

[FIREWALL]

The part in that article that bothers me is the ISP part.

With people driving around in their car and stealing internet service. An innocent party could be accused of stealing music.

I know I'm simplifying this but it could happen.

[Dowly]

The part in that article that bothers me is the ISP part.

With people driving around in their car and stealing internet service. An innocent party could be accused of stealing music.

I know I'm simplifying this but it could happen.

Well, that's true. My neighbour has a laptop and someone other in the flat or the next one has a WLAN on his laptop, and as it's unprotected, my neighbour just uses that one. :p Tho, he didnt do it intentionally, he knows very little about PCs. One day, he clicked the internet explorer icon and realised his laptop's connected to internet.

[SUBMAN1]

The part in that article that bothers me is the ISP part.

With people driving around in their car and stealing internet service. An innocent party could be accused of stealing music.

I know I'm simplifying this but it could happen.You just described the main hole in their case. Bigger than any you can possibly imagine. Now let me describe another - Trojan. At this point, you have no control over your system. They could upload from hidden directories easy too and you would never know unless you watch your router lights, but I know to do this once in a while, but do the typical inet users?

I've been analyzing the people given suits though. Most of them usually are sharing quite a bit and not typically the downloader.

Now let me describe another scenario - Suppose you used bittorrent and downloaded something but got something other than what you expected? This has happened to me. So now I could be unwittingly accused of something that I didn't intentionally do? Does it matter than I deleted the item immediately? I guess they can't see that.

The point is, there is no real legal ground for them to stand on thats completely solid. I guess that doesn't stop them.

-S