Its a shame the judiciary are bending over backwards for the Cartels but no doubt the politicians would have got nasty if this decision was not upheld , they do after all gain both "Donations" and a small amount of tax revenue from Hollywood.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070828-judge-torrentspy-must-preserve-data-in-ram.htmlA federal judge has upheld a magistrate's decision forcing TorrentSpy to enable server logging so the Motion Picture Association of America can obtain the IP addresses of those connecting to BitTorrent files via the service. There's one small hitch for the MPAA, though. TorrentSpy has decided to block access by US residents, ensuring that the MPAA will find little of interest in the log files and rendering the court's decision moot—at least for this case.
The magistrate judge didn't buy that argument, and in her opinion reaffirming the magistrate's order, neither did Judge Florence-Marie Cooper. Judge Cooper took issue with TorrentSpy's argument that data in RAM is not "stored." She noted RAM's function as primary storage and that the storage of data in RAM—even if not permanently archived—makes it electronically stored information governed by federal discovery rules.
A very poor decision setting a poor precedent, this looks like a backdoor gagging order as many are not likely to be able to comply with such discovery orders, an average computer does billions of operations a second, is all this to be logged and for how long, the logistics of this are indicative of a serious flaw in the judges brain power.
Others are also concerned this bad judgement could impact privacy across the entire internet.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070625-eff-and-cdt-torrentspy-decision-could-spell-end-of-internet-privacy.htmlIt seems this could be turned to the peoples advantage if enough folks asked for orders similar to this one in cases involving the media and government, after all they have plenty to hide and more often I,m sure.
