RIPA and file-sharing??

[Roland Perry]

In article <47A21A65.5000500@callnetuk.com>, PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> 
writes
>So, not RIPA then?

No, RIPA is about public authorities (the various "bods" [1]) making 
requests when investigating crimes.

And nor is it likely to be "data protection requests" as mentioned later 
in the article.

[1] I was in a meeting with some Trading Standards people yesterday, and 
they brought up the subject of RIPA (probably a a result of the 
publicity earlier in the week) and they cited tracing rogue traders, 
mainly by doing reverse-DQ on phone numbers in classified ads.
-- 
Roland Perry