Yeah, this has "HUGE" implications.. Because is there really privacy left on the internet and how does a company that has huge amounts of cookies and other data warehoused information can be opened up by a legal supeona.

Would you want your online movements that are tracked by unique identifiers be used against you in a US court of law..

Please take some time to read these links.. Tell me what you think?

I'd like to keep this discussion on to the topic than get into a p2p should or should not.  There are a lot of threads for that.

Court Invites Viacom to violate your privacy:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/07/court_invites_viacom_to_violat_1.html

One subpoena is all it takes to reveal your online identify:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/the-privacy-risk-from-the-courts/?ref=technology

Viacom gets access to infringing user data (12 Terabytes??) from Google:

http://www.crn.com/security/208802986