Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

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Date: Fri Jan 25 2008 - 01:50:08 EST

  • Next message: Matt Palmer: "Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal"

    On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:33:20 PST, Owen DeLong said:

    > > And oddly enough, license plates on cars act *exactly the same way* - but
    > > nobody seems at all surprised when police can work backwards from a plate
    > > and come up with a suspect (who, admittedly, may not have been
    > > involved if
    > > the car was borrowed/stolen/etc).
    > >
    > In order to be using the license plate, you had to be physically
    > present in the car.

    "It wasn't me at the hit-and-run, my car was stolen last night"

    "It wasn't me, my PC got zombied"

    Like I said, they work *exactly the same way*.

    But I'm giving up. We've got people here who work for companies that have
    business models that boil down to "given an IP address, figure out who to
    bill" - but although it identifies a person well enough to send them an
    invoice, they think it isn't enough to identify them.




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