| justinian said: I know in my area an IP points to a location and not anyones home address. So I don't care who gets my IP. I can just switch of my router and when it comes back on I have a new one. What's the big deal? In Britain even the police have to go through a whole lot of "obtaining permission" and paperwork to track suspected terrorists internet activity and such like, so what chance of sony getting my name or address from my IP? |
1. An IP is enough to locate you personally - IP address is used to contact ISP who have your details. Most people have dynamic IPs but this is irrelevent, each IP you have temporarily used can be traced personally back to you.
2. I live in the UK and can tell you right now the police would have to go through a whole lot of "obtaining permission" - JUST TO GET AN IP!!!!!
Getting a suspected terrorists IP is part of obtaining the rights to track them - in the UK the police would need THE SAME amount of evidence to do either.
So the point is that a court giving Sony the right to those IPs is scandelous because in the UK at least, you can't get that sort of thing without some serious (think rapemurderterrorismorganised fraud) reasons.
