Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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