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what a fantastic typo/autocorrect.

Google for Tueller distance. Basically, it's the distance that an attacker armed with a knife can get to you before you can draw, aim, and fire. It's about 21 feet.

Nowhere did he state the van "screamed past 100mph", he said earlier that the driver was doing "about 85", which is arguably "close to 100mph". Give the guy a break. The driver was speeding.

If Verizon's users are sharing DMCA protected content, Verizon is under an obligation by law to take action.

Generally speaking, the content holders (Universal, Sony, WB, etc) are sniping the torrent swarm (if you are part of the swarm, your IP is visible to the rest of the swarm) and seeing who's sharing what.

edit: this is why private trackers with a ratio enforcement are generally safer, but by no means foolproof. Get yourself a good Usenet account and an NZB source.

Those IPs get resolved to a provider and Sony or whoever sends a list of offending IPs to Verizon. Verizon identifies the users and sends them the letter.

Verizon really doesn't give a shit what you do with their service, but they have to abide by the DMCA rules by taking some action.

Sounds like you've got a truck with a lot of armor that never had it's brakes upgraded to deal with the extra mass.