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Oh so very true. I ran one of the original sites that mirrored decss before the legal madness started. I got the infamous letter twice, since i was the technical contact for the netblock the site used to live on. I ignored the first one, since i was out of their jurisdiction. Then I moved to California, and finally took the mirror down after recieving the second letter. Not to mention the phone calls i got (i've never told the truth on a domain registration about my phone number since then). The mpaa has way too much spare time on their hands, and they will go after anyone. and most isp's will just take their word for it and drop whatever account the complaint is against.

i did manage to get a bit of revenge though. The letter came via email both times in msword format. The return address was mpaa234@mpaa.org, but the mail headers showed the email coming from a pacbell.net dialup account. So i forwarded both emails to the abuse contact at pacbell, and told them that an unknown person was sending me large binary files from a faked email address. both accounts were promptly shut down :-)