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Originally Posted by kernelpanic View Post
Law Enforcement is unlikely to chase either. The MPAA could spend vast amounts of money to chase the first and gather evidence which LE may then later use(as the RIAA is for illegal music sharing). So far they have not done so.

I think the RIAA has tried, see:

http://epic.org/privacy/copyright/verizon/


Mostly, they have not won, see:

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blo...alifornia.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060713-7257.html

but in both cases above, they got the name of the person who paid for the i.p. address... which is all you need here. Then a search warrant.