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By Andy McCue

Published: Friday 27 January 2006


Name

Anonymous


Location

London


Occupation

IT Manger


Comment

How long before some 'unwitting' wireless braodband user is the 'victim' of a neigbour (etc) illegally downloading music through their unsecured wireless connection..?

Legally there is no obligation to protect your home network and the only info the BPI/RIAA have other than what was downloaded is your IP address, NOT which wireless device was behind that address doing the actual downloading.

The first case of this nature that goes to court will almost certainly get thrown out and result in a huge amount of press attention, record industry be warned...



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