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Originally Posted by borked
OK, I admit I didn't read the whole thread, and I'm going back to read, but if it's a case of riding on the coatstrings of an already failed adventure, albeit in another jurisdiction, then best of luck.....
If the battle is purely in the US, then good luck in proving said US perpetrator downloaded a video from a US-based tube site.
I know that last sentence may get my head blown off here, but I remember the same case being thrown out in London because some skank ponied up the cash to prove he downloaded from a Swiss based provider, which is outside EU jurisdiction.... One of the last cases as I saw reported as a case of the straw that broke the camel's back.
My source for all this was theregister.co.uk - it's all in their archives, just their search engine sucks donkey balls.
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I just read the article about the UK lawsuits. Seems the issue was the breach of privacy by exposing confidential information that was stored not the actual intent of finding out their information to combat piracy.
All law firms, plaintiffs and defendants have to be extremely careful about handling confidential information in any lawsuit and there are liabilities that come along with not doing that. I think most law firms with experience would not even risk exposing private information.