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Originally Posted by Nisses
from a technical pov, if your college uses a dhcp server for your addresses, (and I'm guessing they do) it seems very, very unlikely that they would right away zoom in to your machine, deduct your local IP, and get your personal name and info out of that...
that, combined with the fact that the letter wasn't properly delivered, makes me call bullshit on this so far.
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I also don't believe that this is real, but it's trivial for them to get the IP address and then turn around to the University and say "A student on IP 1.2.3.4 at $DATE $TIME was engaged in copyright infringing activities. Who is this student?" - My roommate got a letter from my university telling him that they were contacted by Universal and to knock off the file sharing. No lawsuit involved, Universal just said cease & desist, and he did, and they were happy.