...in the magnanomosity[sic?] of these vermin. What was the line from one of our members' sigs?: "Man never does anything so gleefully that in the name of Religion"...or something like that. To actually expect such vermin to follow the rules is to truly view the world through rose colored glasses.

And what makes you think that an ISP would give you "a log of the last IP packets sent to the machine before the destruction" anyway? Don't you think that the law enabling such destruction would be written to 1) indemnify anybody delivering the payload, including ISPs and 2) prohibit the deliverers from identifying the source of the payload.

It's the 21st century, Norm. Please try to catch up....