Would a firewall have protected Jammie Thomas from being sued by the RIAA Safenet

Theoretically, would a wireless router firewall have protected Jammie Thomas from being sued by the RIAA Safenet

What else do they know about you if you file share songs or movies?

It seems they know whether or not you're using a wireless router and what the internal IP address is (192.168.m.n) according to this news article.

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"The Charter IP address identified the night of the downloading was

24.179.199.117, according to testimony from Edgar and Weaver. Had a wireless router been used, the internal private IP address assigned by the router would also have been detected by investigators, he claimed -- likely beginning with 192.168."

So, they know your

- Name & address you provided to the isp

- IP Address assigned to you by the isp

- Computer IP address assigned by the router

- Songs or movies you share on your computer with limewire or bittorrent

- Songs or movies you download with kazaa or azureus

- ?

What else do they know about you if you file share songs or movies?

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Posted 5 years ago by OneSolution in Networking Firewalls

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