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I have a roommate that refuses to stop using p2p like limewire.

The internet connection is in my name.

If he gets caught, am I the one that gets the law suit?

If you were in this situation what would you do?

I don't want to just ban him from my internet, I have to live with this guy for the rest of the year, and this would be a constant source of argument.

I looked into blocking p2p with my dd-wrt router, but that seems to be unreliable.

Any other suggestions?

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Actually, it would be very difficult to find magnets which can damage today's hard drives. – AndrejaKo Oct 26 '10 at 21:13
Yes you would be in trouble, they trace the IP back to the customer, which is YOU! Yes ban him or its your butt and dollars if you don't. Just because he is a room mate, he does not have rights to use your internet service. – Moab Oct 26 '10 at 21:33
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Stack Overflow is probably a bad place to ask for legal advice. There aren't many lawyers here, and the few that are aren't your lawyer. My advice is to talk to your roommate.

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IANAL, but yes, the copyright owner will look at the IP address and then subpoena the ISP you have and they will then hand them your name as the owner. They will then file against you as the owner. It will then be up to you to provide evidence that it wasn't your computer. Note that last sentence - actually if you declare it wasn't your computer, they will then try to file a writ to obtain your computer as evidence and examine it for proof. If you do something like nuke the hard drive, it will be used as evidence that it was you - you will automatically lose. You can't destroy evidence or the presumption will be that there was evidence and you're toast. If you hand them your computer, they then have to examine it to see if they can find evidence like music or videos, movies... Not that you have anything to hide, but do you really want someone poking through your drive?

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