Phil Leigh’s “Inside Digital Media” is a place where, according to its site, “you can see and hear interviews with thought leaders in the Digital Media industries.”

And, indeed, that is just what they offer.

Of particular interest to Aunty was the November 18th interview with David Israelite, Chairman of the Task Force on Intellectual Property, for the U.S. Justice Department. The Justice Department’s John Ashcroft had announced in October that “peer-to-peer piracy is a ‘widespread’ problem that can be addressed only through more spending, more FBI agents, and more power for prosecutors,” and that “the department is prepared to build the strongest, most aggressive legal assault against intellectual-property crime in our nation’s history.”

During the interview, Israelite explains that it would be helpful for Justice to have a way to determine with certainty the identities of peer-to-peer users who are duplicating copyrighted files without permission on the Internet. In other words, a way to end-run the recent court decisions stating that one can not just demand that an ISP divulge the identity of a file-sharing user willy-nilly… [Continued]