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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
You don't need to 'prove' what's clearly stated in law...
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What's "clearly" stated? Nowhere in the law does it state that the bill payer is liable for the actions of someone using their connection. An IP address is not a person. It's illegal to pirate stuff, sure, but that does not mean that an IP address caught in a torrent is proof of the bill payer being the pirate. To my knowledge, this has never been the case and no court has convicted the bill payer purely on an IP address alone.
That doesn't stop these companies sending threatening letters hoping for out of court settlements, but again to my knowledge, nobody that has ever challenged them has ever been found guilty in court. Tell them to go away and they will, because the legal ground is extremely shaky.