<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On 8 Sep, 2010, at 17:19, Joonas Mäkinen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Whoa, fascinating!<br></blockquote><div><br></div>It's a whole new world ;-)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">This coudl prove to be a good reference when talking about the case of warning/blackmail letters and disclosing filesharers' personal data...<br></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes. Warning letters are now illegal. Not the letter itself, but the way they got the IP is now illegal.</div><div><br></div><div>On 8 Sep, 2010, at 17:20, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Just a bit of information: It's the same in Spain, IP addresses have<br>been considered private too since 6 years ago. The implications of<br>this are many as you say: it's difficult to catch people by their IP<br>addresses. But also for example if you're running a web server that<br>creates a log containing the ip addresses of your visitors, chances<br>are you're out of the law too. Not that they enforce that, nor that it<br>is possible to do it, but then there is the fact.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>True. ISPs are a bit worried right now and many question are raised in the swiss ISP community (SwiNOG). I'm near to this community (or better said, fully in it) since 10+ years, I'm collecting all questions and will get answers from the lawyer that handled the case (Same lawyer as the Razorback case, maybe you remember Razorback, largest eMule server ever). I will publish this FAQ here too as soon as its done.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Pascal</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">---</div><div>Pascal Gloor</div><div>Vice President of the Pirate Party Switzerland<br><a href="http://www.partipirate.ch">http://www.partipirate.ch</a><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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