Everybodys doing it: downloading music and sharing files.
People who share music files on the Internet argue that
downloading is legal; today they could be sued by the record
industry. Can one be sued without a grand intrusion into
personal lives of an individual?

1. Enjoy music downloads from safe and legal sources. Get the
facts and not the scare tactics, about online music services.

2. The prosecution has to able to prove, with adequate
evidence, that the IP address used for music downloads could be
linked to the human accused of illegal content sharing. There
is a growing concern for "privacy". Legal experts worry about
the "intrusiveness" of Internet monitoring in order to prove a
court case.

3. These IP address--numbers--given to user by the ISPs are
dynamic and change rapidly. The starting point is to establish
that there is enough bona fide evidence to prosecute.

4. It is difficult to a pin an IP address on any one human .
The IP numbers that some ISPs assign to their users might change
from one "session" to the next. The music industry must be able
to hyperlink document -sharers to clear-cut IP addresses at the times those
addresses we are used for document sharing.

5. Since their are personal freedoms involved, the courts want
to generate sure that the individual is revealed to the public.

6. These