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This happens in the U.S. and has for years.
by hellofunk 11y ago
This happens in the U.S. and has for years.
- kisstheblade 11y agoI read up on this when I got my own little surprise letter and found out that it indeed is quite common. I was surprised though that I hadn't heard about this anywhere. Maybe the most "shocking" part was how easy it is to get customer info from an ISP. And still I haven't heard anything about this. Even though there exists political parties around this (eg. piratpartiet in sweden and other countries.) Upon further googling I found some news articles where the lawyers try to drum up fear, but apparently only a couple of cases have gone to court here or are pending. One case supposedly ended in a secret(!) settlement. And this is the "market court" we are talking about, secret settlements seem weird. Has there been any public court cases where the "suspect" has been convicted of any meaningful sum? One would think that these lawyers would make it a very public as a "precedent".