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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
..........The days of illegal filesharing are numbered. A generation has spent the best part of the last 12-15 years arguing their right to steal / infringe on others copyrights.
While they were stuck to their screens agog with wonderment and busying themselves with free copies of albums, softwares and movies the legislators were eroding civil liberties and privacy laws to the point that council officials can now seize your goods, civil servants and others can force entry to your home and detain you with no warrant and young men can be brought to trial by jury for "thinking" about a school massacre.
Anyone who thinks the "without a court order" nonsense will continue to hold up in the face of the decimation of an industry which had previously contributed billions to the British GDP against some half baked (nazi funded in the case of the site you mentioned earlier) ideal of a cultural free for all is living in cloud cuckoo land.
Sorry, but that's how it's going to pan out.
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I suspect before that happens there will be a few test cases going to court that will result in the judgement that terms and conditions in a contract that state that the account holder is totally resposible for the data passing to and from his/her/its ip address are illegal and unenforceable.