Quote Originally Posted by Stewie View Post
Do you really believe that??

You get someones ip you can find out who they are with having to call the gardai. It's just a large database your ISP keeps so depending on the ISP hundreds of people have access to it you just need to know someone in the ISP to get that info.
And presumably if somebody in the ISP gave out the personal info of the individual behind an ip address to anyone other than a member of the gardai on foot of a court order, that person would have broken the law (Data Protection Act at the very least) and be subject to the law and to being dismissed, and their employer, the ISP could be sued.