Websites to be forced to identify trolls under new measures - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Strongbad;36297453]Solution: Don't use Facebook. It's pretty much already invading your privacy and this is just the nail in your coffin.[/QUOTE] You should probably look into what actually happened to this woman. They made a facebook profile for her. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-18351855[/url]

[quote=article] As the subscriber information might not be correct, it would be up to Ms Brookes to obtain a further court order to compel internet service providers to reveal which people the IP addresses are connected to. She would then be able to launch legal action. [/quote] No she wouldn't because many IP addresses are dynamic and by the time she manages to get them, they'll either lead to nothing or worse, lead to someone else. She might manage if something was posted at a workplace or school which logs network information, but other than that, she's out of luck.

[quote] Facebook, which did not contest the order, will now reveal the [b]IP addresses[/b] of people who had abused her so she can prosecute them.[/quote] [url]http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/court-rules-internet-ip-addresses-are-not-people/1022[/url] I guess that just went straight out the window.

They need to add it to the TOS of the website that if you sign up, you can't be a cunt.

Ah yes, prosecute an IP. Just don't cry when it doesn't arrive to court because it expired :v:

The only issue I have with this is that the UK's libel laws are idiotic and draconian. For instance, in court the person who is accused of comitting libel has to prove that what they said/wrote wasn't libel, instead of the prosecution proving it was. Also, even if you what you said was true, objectively, you can still be sued for libel.

As I said in the previous thread, libel is libel no matter how it is spread. The word "troll" needs to stop being used in this context though, to most of the internet a troll is not the same as what people think. Take the case of the woman in this article, that isn't trolling its blatant harassment and libel and should be dealt with as such. [QUOTE=KirinoKousaka;36294749]But the Internet should be kept seperate from real life. What people choose to do online should have no impact on their real lives.[/QUOTE] People need to stop thinking this. The internet is not separate from "real" life. The internet is a part of everything, things you do on it have a real effect.

This in the UK, right? So this doesn't involve the US? Nice

[QUOTE=Jackald;36298844]That's American law, apparently in the UK our legal system thinks ip addresses are people. [/QUOTE] Given that it is possible for an ISP to say which customer account was using an IP at any given time its not a surprise. With piracy as far as I understand it is the account holder who is responsible, I guess they could point out who really did it at that point.