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Originally Posted by arne_bab  Sorry that I saw this only now: The police can and will come straight to your door.
Why should they try to download from you, when they can just retrace your IP address to you and grab your computer?
Your computer holds far better evidence of your downloads than any of their searches could show.
The only reasons why they shouldn't do this, are because the police people involved might think you a small fish just like their own children, downloading some music off the net and still buying CDs of their favourite artists.
And because they don't have unlimited resources, and have far better ways to spend their time than trying to catch music pirates. For example catching murderers, drug dealers and similar. |
The problem with hearsay evidence is that the police have
to follow up and get documented evidence to corroborate
before applying for a warrant. It's a step they cannot skip
because executing a search solely on the word of a third
party is a crime in itself.
If they tried to get a warrant without it, they'd be laughed
out of the building.
Tips are good, but you cannot consider them an order to go
through doors and seize evidence. If that was so, anybody
could get police to storm any home with a single phone call.