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Old 24-07-2008, 22:05   #64
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Re: Britain's six largest ISPs and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing

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Originally Posted by dev View Post
although the BPI sends an IP address, how do VM convert the IP address to a customer? First they'd need to check the dhcp records which no doubt would match to a MAC address, they then check who has the MAC address on their account.
Surely though they'll be a register of two IP's for that MAC address and this would be flagged up on VM's system putting in doubt that the account holder is the culprit.

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