Originally Posted by Mutt

hahaha this is what all these fuckers who have thrown in the towel and think you have to accept having your content ripped off and morons like Gideon who think the existing copyright law is on the side of thieves don't understand - copyright infringing is still a illegal and copyright cases are civil cases, this isn't 'beyond a reasonable doubt' criminal law, when a jury is asked for a verdict they are asked to weigh the evidence against the defendant and decide if it's more likely than not that they commited the act they are being sued for. if the defendant's IP address xxx.xxx.xx.xx is shown to have downloaded/distributed a copyrighted file, good luck with that defense that the IP could have been also used by anybody else on the same network - not if you also have evidence that IP address was also used to post on forums with a nickname that can be traced to the defendant and any other evidence a good investigator/attorney will dig up that points towards the defendant

OJ Simpson got off on murder charges because a retarded jury took a one in a billion out Johnny Cochrane gave them on DNA evidence and twisted that one in a billion into 'a reasonable doubt'. When Fred Goldman sued OJ Simpson civilly the case was a slam dunk for Goldman.

Copyright cases against infringers are easy, it's suing those who may/can be protected by the 'safe harbor' provisions of the DMCA, search engines/file hosting services/tube sites etc that is difficult

what James Grady did is what anybody who owns content should do. Just make sure before you sue somebody that the person has some assets that you can collect from.