Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 8th Jul 2008 12:11 UTC, submitted by LostAirman
The way the Internet is set up now, an I.P. address, by itself, doesn't identify an individual user. But an I.P. address can be traced to a specific Internet service provider, and with a subpoena, the Internet provider can be forced to identify which of their customers was assigned a particular I.P. address at a particular time. That is how the recording industry has been identifying and suing people who use file sharing programs.
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A lot of those guys dealing with that kind of stuff are pretty dumb and don't know about anonymity. They use IRC, AOL chat rooms, and usenet. Now, thanks to the RIAA and MPAA, technology like tor, bittorrent, and others are going to become mainstream and these creapy pedophiles are going to start using it.