Not quite. The immediate responce (on the spot) is that your car is impounded for 7 days, and your license is suspended for 7 days. The *maximum* fine, if convicted is $10000 CAD and having your license suspended for at least 60 days.

It would be a good idea to backup the file being updated before patching it; so the backup could easily be saved in order to revert.

Which is a glaring hole in the law, one which should be changed.

Any personally identifying information held by a company or individual about a second individual should be considered confidential and treated as such. Otherwise you might end up in the situation where your doctor doesn't tell anyone you have disease X, however your credit card company could because they know you've been buying medications. Who the information comes from is really of little consequence; it's the information itself that matters.

118548.15L/100Km... that's... impressive

According to their testimony they did infact download the 24 songs they are sueing over; and did make sure that they were the correct songs. However, they don't have any proof that anyone else downloaded the songs, which might prove to be the big issue.

You can observe someone else not follow the advice and die, that tends to work fairly well. Otherwise lingering curiosity would probably remain.

Except that weak encryption IS easier to break then finding out the password. Especially when you are capuring wireless packets in a crowded environment where you don't know who is doing the sending**.

In those cases it is much easier to break the relatively weak encryption used almost everywhere then try and seek out the person who's sending packets to 10.145.23.30.

**Not that anyone would ever do such things...

Those same idiots tend not to know the law anyways. Creating new laws to make already illegal things illegal is only going to make things worse for those people who do try and know the law.

DNS names are not industry specific, so why should you be limited to a single industry when proving "Mc" is a common prefix?