On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:00:00PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > Incidentally - someone somewhere and some years ago stated (to me, or in some > list/forum) that if ISPs in the US found that you were using P2P clients to > download MP3s regarded as copyrighted your illegal action could be reported. > > Is this information true or just another rumor?
There's an EU directive requiring all ISPs to log connection info by law (it must become law 2008). This includes which IP made which connection to which other IP at which time -- more than enough noose to hang ya. > Of course none of this has prevented me from downloading gigabytes of music > and haven't a clue about whether it is copyrighted or not. That apart from > the fact that I have uploaded about 3 GB of video on to YouTube - 90% of > which was not shot by me. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
