Court orders Canadian ISP to reveal customers who downloaded movies

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2. I would have to see the outcome

of the investigation before I'd believe they have 2,000 IP addresses associated with individual customers who have downloaded their movies via peer to peer. It's a bluff I do believe.

Peer to peer is a little bit "disjointed" to say the least. To prove certain IP addresses have been used by an individual to download a complete file, the studio would need other information not associated with that IP to prove it, I.E. a seller with data storage who holds complete files that they distributed for remuneration that can be traced and who has made an agreement with the studio to give them those IP addresses probably to evade their own prosecution. Peer to peer could mean a boat load of different anonymous sources all with just a small piece of data uploaded to who knows how many other IP addresses.

But the idea usually is to fake an allegation to get a settlement and make a public statement. It in itself is unethical and a fraud that more than not ends up getting settlements from innocent people. But they do get to scare people in the process and that's what they're really after. The threat of a law suit is always more profitable than proving the allegation especially where media is concerned.

They want the names and addresses of customers with particular IP addresses. That could be you, that could be me, even though we may never have participated is peer to peer. What do you call that?