I'm posting this anonymously...
...because you're not entitled to know who I am.
The European supreme court has ruled that lower authorities are not compelled to order disclosure of file-sharers' identities by ISPs in civil lawsuits. The decision will hamper the efforts of rights-holder bodies to clamp down on digital copying through the courts. The decision was handed down today in a dispute between …
"If you have nothing to hide you needn't be bothered by ISPs releasing details of your internet usage to law enforcement officials."
Yes because it's not like any of the recording industries lawsuits thus far have been sheer guessing and speculation or anything.
Oh wait no, they've tried to drag hundreds of innocents into the courts thus far. It doesn't matter if you're in the right or wrong. I as an individual can claim to your ISP that you infringed my copyright with nothing more than an easily faked screenshot of your IP as a peer on some made up torrent as evidence if I can get your IP and get all your personal details and do whatever the hell I want with them.
Jesus Christ, what's with these bloody Americanisms?
It's called the EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE.
While 'supreme court' in lower caps is technically correct, it's extremely irritating. What next, are you going to start calling the House of Lords 'the United Kingdom States Supreme Court'?