On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:21:04PM +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
> /armchair lawyer mode on
>
> This seems to be a pretty landmark case, but one that will surely be
> contested/appealed?
Our expectation as well.
> The article implies that the pub owner was fined because he couldn't
> identify individuals who were performing the illegal action when a civil
> case was brought against him by whoever the copyright owner was.
> It doesn't say how that particular Cloud site made access available,
> or why the individual wasn't accessable. It hints that NAT was to blame.
We were discussing this at lunchtime. None of the articles seem to have much
detail as to how the connections were being made. Was the landlord being an
idiot and giving out one username and password to his customers? AFAIK a
normal Cloud user has a their own username so should be identifable. How did
the complainant identify the AP being used?
> In the case of eduroam, it should be possible to link a specific activity
> to a specific authenticated user? And any Tier 3 site will have one
> global IP per user (and IPv6 available!).
Sounds reasonable but reason seems to have taken a holiday with this story.
Mike
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Mike Richardson
Networks
IT Services, University of Manchester
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