> but what if you need to perform network-analysis to build sufficient evidence. In that case you need to do it another way. There are a tremendous number of

> but what if you need to perform network-analysis to build sufficient evidence. In that case you need to do it another way. There are a tremendous number of things we could do if law enforcement wasn't "hindered." It's along the lines of "argument from lack of imagination" to state that they HAVE to have access to that data to prevent x, y, z. I don't doubt that it would be useful to have that data, but that doesn't override privacy concerns. You already know the IP address of the server using that domain -- follow up that chain of responsibility.