Originally Posted by gideongallery

just remember this is at the getting the persons name stage. the arguement that he just ruled in favor of was made by an unknown "third party" most likely one of the defendents, and it was allowed even though the person didn't identify themselves to make it.

that is the key to this case, there are a lot more, privacy, jurisdiction etc issues that are being violated by the shot gun aproach of suing bit torrent downloaders.

Fair use authorizes a lot of activity which means when ever the download is fair use, that persons privacy rights are being stomped all over.

when the net catches both fair use and infringement at the same time, you have some serious problems.