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Originally posted by Stuart W
This strengthens my theory..... only individual (company) copyright owners would persue a case.
I can't see a 'governing body' stepping in to prosecute people for sharing multiple copyrighted files.
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Ah.. but this is where it gets interesting!
Whilst there may not be a "Governing body", I believe that we are likely to see agencies specialising in this field of work and therefore being contracted by, say big record labels, to recover costs that they believe to have been lost due to P2P distribution. The agents can then do all the groundwork / fieldwork and legal work and could effectively identify numerous files being offered for download that are in fact copyrighted by various copyright owners, whom they happen to be working for... this isn't too far fetched is it??!
That way, they can build up bigger cases on individuals and ensure that the relevant measures are taken to prevent any re-occurrence by the same offender.