RIPA and file-sharing??

[David Hansen]

On 7 Feb 2008 at 8:37, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

> Personally, I'd have been happy with that, but I suspect that neither 
> law enforcement nor the courts would have been. Do the courts have the 
> manpower to cope with the number of applications there would have been? 
> Let's suppose that 80% of requests for communications data are 
> unnecessary (an assumption I *don't* make); that still means 100,000 
> applications a year. Do you think there would actually have been enough 
> scrutiny to make it worthwhile?

That depends on how many people are employed todo the scrutiny.
 
> Perhaps the line should have been drawn between name-and-address queries 
> and other ones.

I don't think anyone has suggested that such queries should go to the 
courts, other than the forces of darkness putting up a straw man. 
Compulsory disclosure to victims after the event would provide a 
suitable check on "over enthusiastic" members of the Egg Marketing 
Board.





-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
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