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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by Natsu on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:39AM (#2287222)
It says that they got the name & address from Comcast by looking up the IPs he used to connect to the other services.

If you have the power to issue subpoenas, you can find out a lot of things assuming you know which people to ask.

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by Joakal on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:54AM (#2287260)
They found that the gmail account had information that matched the name and address of the information Comcast provided.

"[email protected] was registered to Brian McCarthy at the same Deer Park address Comcast had revealed."

So either the account had information (maybe ip logs but article clearly states name + home address) or it was in the emails.

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Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down by Natsu on Friday March 04, 2011 @02:50AM (#2287372)
Hmm, I had read that assuming they were talking about an IP address, but I may have misread it. I think you can put your physical address in somewhere in your Gmail account, but it's not required and I might be misremembering.
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