Authors Without A Yacht (AWaY) discussion

You'd think that phone records would show whether or not the "Far Cry" was downloaded onto "Sabine's" cell phone!

I wonder if she lent it to someone?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ne...

Anyway, it sounds horrible. If I were "Sabina" (not her real name), I think I'd countersue Verizon for defamation of character, and identity theft.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ne...

I'm shocked. Appalled. I had no idea that elements within the industry were piling on to people who may have had their online identities stolen, or who are victims of a one-time clerical error at a telephone or internet provider!

The sort of people the Entertainment industry should be targeting (in my opinion) are people who can be proven to have knowingly, repeatedly, intentionally shared copyrighted materials in public forums.

I've never trusted WiFi! Or cellphones!!!

True, Rowena. I completely agree.

It is too darned easy to heist someone's signal, to hack into someone's servers, to steal identity, and so forth. It happens every day. I've had to fight someone that hacked into a publisher's servers and stole my banking information to make fraudulent charges. Friends have had people open fake credit cards in their names. The person whose identity is stolen is not responsible for those crimes or charges, in which (mind you) he/she is as much a victim as the people defrauded are!

I have said repeatedly that the proposed (or did it pass?) internet license system in the UK will only lead to more cases of identity theft. It will be no harder to steal someone's information to make a fake credit card or a fake passport (reason #1 NOT to trust the new chip embedded passports...they've already caught people hanging around airports with readers to store the data from them!) than it will be to fake the internet license.

Brenna