[link|http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/21/technology/verizon_songswapper.reut/index.htm|MP3 downloaders, beware]

Excerpt:

The recording industry asked Verizon last summer to reveal the name of a customer believed to have downloaded more than 600 songs in one day, but Verizon refused, saying that such a move would violate customer privacy and force Internet service providers to serve as the music industry's online policeman.

But in a ruling Tuesday, Federal Judge John Bates ordered Verizon to turn over the customer's name.

I say:

Very, um, interesting precedent. Gotta love all those privacy and deniability features in Freenet.