Verizon is appealing the court decision that would force it to identify an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. Verizon's senior vice president, John Thorne, was quoted as saying: "Verizon will use every legal means to protect its subscribers' privacy. If this ruling stands, consumers will be caught in a digital dragnet, not only from record companies alleging infringement of their copyright monopolies, but from anyone who can fill out a simple form."

This case, when finally settled, could have a massive impact on the flourishing P2P community.

Verizon has found strange allies in nonprofit groups such as Consumer Federation of America, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Alert, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and National Consumers League. Whatever the final decision of the courts, the waves could ripple throughout the file-sharing community for quite some time.

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