It's still not "extortion," in that USCG can claim to have a legitimate legal basis for the demands, but it certainly comes damn close in practice.

It's still not "extortion," in that USCG can claim to have a legitimate legal basis for the demands, but it certainly comes damn close in practice. No, it's extortion. The process for determining who might have used BitTorrent here is seriously flawed, and the flaws are known, but the attitude from the accusing side is "So what?"