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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Chasing end users was never going to work, it's not scalable.
It's far better to go after commercial pirates and those who provide services to them.
Much better to shut down trackers and their hosts than go chasing individuals.
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Wholeheartedly agree with you AdultKing, but is it a viable choice? Shut down one tracker and ten others crop up. Time, effort and cost is involved in making such an effort so it is hardly an incentive to try.
On the flip side you can monitor, or as I would say compile a list of IP addresses for an ISP and ask them for disclosure of subscriber names. The ISP denies you because of Data Protection, so you go for a Norwich Pharmacal Order (NPO) and get a High Court Judge to grant your request from the ISP. Then you ask for £700.00 because in downloading you share to other "potential" customers.
Conveniently forgetting the fact that everyone is paying for everyone else's infringement (Double counting).
It escapes me that the ones who perpetrate this scam claim the "Theft" angle. It isn't theft because any Court case would be in the Civil Courts. Actual theft is in a criminal Court.
In a way, I think it would be better that piracy would be classed as a criminal offence because the victims would be handled by the Police and not some suspended Lawyer or a Lawyer wannabe.
At least you can have some trust in the Police.