Lawyers on Chat Boards ...

[Barrister]

I personally am glad the old board died along will all the posts ever made on it.
Lest if I ever made something of my life I'd be fucked :p

Someone would have to prove Tyr is in fact you, though. I think  anything pointing to you is pretty circumstantial.

Not really.

Your IP is logged for every post.  Your IP then points to who your service provider is.

Your servioce provider in turn has records on who it's customers are, and who is using what IP at any given time.

With the appropriate court orders you can easily identify which household and which computer made any given point.

The issue can be once you've ID'd the computer, you have to figure out who used it.  But even then it can certainly be done.

How do you think we manage to get child porn convictions?   

[The Brain]

I was a regular on that board (hell, I was a mod), and even posted in the impugned thread.   

What happened?

WHAT HAPPEN

[derspiess]

I was a regular on that board (hell, I was a mod), and even posted in the impugned thread.  

What happened?

WHAT HAPPEN

SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB

[The Brain]

How do you think we manage to get child porn convictions?   

[Barrister]

I was a regular on that board (hell, I was a mod), and even posted in the impugned thread.   

What happened?

WHAT HAPPEN

Did you miss the long-ass post I made directly below Malthus' question?   

[garbon]

Not really.

Your IP is logged for every post.  Your IP then points to who your service provider is.

Your servioce provider in turn has records on who it's customers are, and who is using what IP at any given time.

With the appropriate court orders you can easily identify which household and which computer made any given point.

The issue can be once you've ID'd the computer, you have to figure out who used it.  But even then it can certainly be done.

How do you think we manage to get child porn convictions?  

I don't have a service provider and yet I can post.

[The Brain]

I was a regular on that board (hell, I was a mod), and even posted in the impugned thread.   

What happened?

WHAT HAPPEN

Did you miss the long-ass post I made directly below Malthus' question?   

FFS it was only zero score and seven years ago that the Portuguese Jew wrote it in the stab thread.

[Barrister]

Garbo, yes there are ways to avoid being tracked - proxy servers, wifi connections.  But most people don't do that.

[The Brain]

most people don't do that.

If I had a dollar...

[Eddie Teach]

most people don't do that.

If I had a dollar...

You'd be able to eat?

[Valdemar]

I personally am glad the old board died along will all the posts ever made on it.
Lest if I ever made something of my life I'd be fucked :p

Someone would have to prove Tyr is in fact you, though. I think  anything pointing to you is pretty circumstantial.

Not really.

Your IP is logged for every post.  Your IP then points to who your service provider is.

Your servioce provider in turn has records on who it's customers are, and who is using what IP at any given time.

With the appropriate court orders you can easily identify which household and which computer made any given point.

The issue can be once you've ID'd the computer, you have to figure out who used it.  But even then it can certainly be done.

How do you think we manage to get child porn convictions?   

Child porn, and possibly other heavy duty crimes have international agreemetns that will accept court orders across nation state borders.. I doubt infamatory statements will be accepted as reason to open up foreign registers at ISPs

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[garbon]

Garbo, yes there are ways to avoid being tracked - proxy servers, wifi connections.  But most people don't do that.

A lot of city dwellers do though. The cafes here are always packed with people using the wireless.

[DGuller]

Would any of this actually hold up in court?

Doesn't matter.  It'll cost you a lot of money to actually fight it in court.

Which is, more than anything, what makes people lose faith in the legal system.  How effective is the protection of one's rights if you need to bankrupt yourself to do it?

[Malthus]

Would any of this actually hold up in court?

Doesn't matter.  It'll cost you a lot of money to actually fight it in court.

Which is, more than anything, what makes people lose faith in the legal system.  How effective is the protection of one's rights if you need to bankrupt yourself to do it?

In Canada this is offset to an extent by cost rules, but still - lose faith compared with what? The alternative if you have a serious dispute with someone is ... ?

[dps]

Garbo, yes there are ways to avoid being tracked - proxy servers, wifi connections.  But most people don't do that.

A lot of city dwellers do though. The cafes here are always packed with people using the wireless.

Libraries, too.  A while back I needed to print something off the net, but my printer was messed up.  Not having the time at the moment to try and figure out what the printer's problem was and then fix it, and not wanting to buy a new printer if it was something easily fixable like needing to download a driver or something, I decided to go to the local public library and download and print the documents there.  All their computers were already in use (I got there about 10 minutes after they opened), and there was also already like a 3-hour waiting list.