"It has been determined by a federal court in RIAA v. Verizon that a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act permits copyright owners to obtain an ISP subscriber's identifying information without any judicial supervision, or any due process for the subscriber," Brownback said. "The real harm here is that nothing in this quasi-subpoena process prevents someone other than a digital media owner -- say a stalker, a pedophile, a telemarketer or even a spammer -- from using this quasi subpoena process to gain the identity of Internet subscribers, including our children."
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3078541

Before this is over, the recording industry is going to get its butt kicked.