On 6/9/05, Philip Nulty <philnulty at eircom.net> wrote:
> I know it's over the top but I just had a call from IOL Broadband on
> behalf of twenty century fox. They said I had downloaded Star Wars
> revenge of the sith. (which i didnt)
> First of all can how can they access that information?
> is that not against the Data protection act?
Having worked in an ISP environment - what's almost certainly happened
is your ISP (IOL in this case) got an email from someone claiming to
be acting on behalf of the film companies with an IP address and
timestamp of some allegedly illegal activity.
It is possible that someone in IOL got the wrong IP address by
entering the wrong timezone (one of the big issues in dealing with
abuse enquires regarding dynamically assigned IPs is mapping the
timezone and date correctly back to your records - most complaints
don't come from the UK/IE timezone and it can get confusing).
It is certainly not against the DPA for your ISP to hold records of
which customer had which IP address for a certain period of time,
Thomas
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