Also there are judges who think that we are not IP addresses

IP addresses are not. Those who wield it are a number on the internet do not understand the complexity of identity in the digital world. Proponents of copyright, these promoters of the witch hunt and McCarthyism 2.0 - argue that you can turn this series of numbers in the name of a citizen to accuse of a crime (and even prejudged as guilty ). Fortunately, there are people who learn from mistakes, as Judge Harold Baker

It started with several operations to search for Internet pedophiles. The authorities said several suspects by IP address, and when rushed to arrest him, they realized they had captured neighbors who left their wireless network open. Judge Baker decided to learn from this error to apply to cases of file sharing. At the request of Attorney John Steele to discover the people behind a list of IP addresses of alleged offenders, the judge refused. Despite the appeal, Baker has maintained its position completely inappropriate considering expose anonymous individuals under such suspicion.

The judge criticized this mechanism, arguing that, err, public exposure would be too embarrassing for the people, the legal system would be daunting and expensive, and ultimately, the defendant may ask where is the solid evidence to support the case. Baker cited the case of pedophiles raids, where he made ​​a false allegory of assuming that an IP address amounted to a name.

The suggested list of IP addresses, in some instances, a similar connection between the owner of the IP and copyright infringer (...) The offender may be the owner, someone in your household, a visitor to your laptop, a neighbor or someone parked on the street at any given time.

Similarly, Baker said the court should not be provided to serve as an outpost to be trying to "catch" offenders, arguing that only the IP address is sufficient evidence to point to a person. Indeed, the judge has closed the door in the face of copyright lawyers who mistakenly assume they can unleash a hunt without evidence. Bravo.

In closing, I emphasize a thought of another editor ALT1040, Alan Lazalde:

And I do not know about you but I am not an IP address. Since I am not a mobile number or home address, not even my own name. If identity theft in the analog world is an everyday thing, more so in digital. So laws that assume or require that a person is equivalent to an IP address talking about the anger, ignorance and stubbornness of those who legislate or promoted. If those who insist on putting people in jail for illegal downloads by a number so very vulnerable as the IP address, using different arguments.

Also there are judges who think that IP addresses are not written in ALT1040 on 3 May, 2011 by Pepe Flores
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