Yes that is a good point with the through-put. Say my firewall is the last hop they see doing a route trace to me. Even tho I'm connected to an Intranet of 5000+ computers the last IP address attached to the file is mine. Did I download the material? HTF can you prove that I did? was there some guy with a mapped image of my drive with the materials on there? what about the botnet puters that are rampant with malware/spyware? they spam out millions of emails a day from random computers who happened to be infected. I have a song that I share out to 1000 people effectively what they are saying is that any computer that the file passed through on the network path to its ultimate destination is now liable for damages for transporting the information even tho my computer which is hidden from direct view by a spoof or something is not visible. Then is the ISP now liable for the hosting file? what about the hop it made in china or los angeles or texas or florida? Are all these computers now liable for file trafficing? If so then why is it legal for radio stations to broadcast music that is copyrighted to my stereo via wireless signals and I make a TAPE or CD of the audio that is freely and publicly distributed via an OPEN signal to anyone in the area now suddenly wrong? I know any and all of the people who grew up with tape decks recorded songs from the radio. That being said now the **AA's can essentially come along and sue you for making a tape of there material that is distributed via TV, Radio, Satellite, Internet, ETC. Yet they offer it to you openly? Hypocritical socialists. If it were up to me I would download every video and song ever made broadcast via a remote host or hosts everywhere in the world and post a disclaimer that states that the **AA's can universally kiss my ass because I'm doing nothing more then what you do on a daily basis, I'm just making it easier to do for everyone. Think about that when you are watching CBS,NBC,ABC etc and they have this wonderful movie that was in the theatre that you loved. I didn't pay anything to watch this movie they are showing yet if I make a video tape of it I'm essentially now liable for the movies gross income over its lifetime? Fuck them. Sue me all you want I make 20k a year and if you think you can get 100k outta me I would love to see it. Quote "We the unwilling, Lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful" Albert Einstein.