IANAL but I would assume, due to the nature of peer to peer networks,
and seeing how those files are kept in a shared directory, for the peer
to peer network, that any privacy laws that MAY have applied would be
nulled.

However! I think there may be a case IF the MPAA cannot prove that
those files were actually their content. Unless they actually
downloaded those files, and verified that is was actually their
property, I don't see how that case could stand in court, based on a
filename.

That could be porn you were hiding from your parents, so you renamed it
to movies they hate, so they wouldn't look at it.

- Vince

> This is my first post :)
>
> /me wonders how the MPAA/etc knew that those files
> contained videos ..
>
> So, if they had to open *your* copies of those files
> to determine their content, isn't that an infringement
> of any privacy law in the US ?
>
> jasonk
>
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 20:17, jasonk wrote:
> <snip>
>
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> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> name=case517703-1-gnutella.txt
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename=case517703-1-gnutella.txt
> >
> > Gnutella Incident
> >
> > Date: 2002-07-02 04:08:38 GMT
> > Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> > Index Size Name
> > ----- ------
> ---------------------------------------------------
> > 11 259 MB (smr)harry_potter-ts(1of2).avi
> > 12 196 MB
> (smr)jay_and_silent_bob_strike_back-wp(2of2).avi
> > 13 137 MB ctp - windtalkers - svcd to divx
> (1of2).avi
> > 14 42 MB South park - 603 - Asspen(DivX).avi
> > 15 43 MB
> Southpark_-_504_Super_best_friends(DivX).avi
> > 16 52 MB
> Southpark_-_505_Terrance_and_Garfunkel(DivX).avi
> > 17 53 MB
> South_Park_0413-Trapper_Keeper_(DivX).avi
> > 18 94 MB The Simpsons - Crayon Brain (Divx).avi
> > -end-
> >
> > ------=_Part_38152_15391325.1026155139639--
> >
> </snip>
>

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