Rich,, that's just it. Without investing a lot of time and energy, you won't have the resources to track them down. It can be done, you should read the book the cuckoo's egg. It's just tedius and time consuming. The average guy isn't going to invest the time or effort.
But they won't stop BB from tracking you down if he wants to. He has a virtually unlimited budget, unlimited manpower, better tools, and the ability to make ISP's cooperate with him (court orders).
What is going to start happening, and I've thought about looking into developing it, is a system using an encrypted key.
When you register, you will get a key that resides on your machine. Without the key, you cannot post.
Because the key includes the encrypted username, it cannot be used by anyone else. You boot a user, you disable the key.
Then only trusted (however you want to define it) users can make posts on the board.
Issues with this method:
1)some people have multiple computers, so the key has to be somewhat portable.
2)People upgrade machines - same as point 1
3) how do you establish the trust to give them a key in the first place? <- this is the biggest of the issues. People like the privacy of the net, you can't really demand their dirvers license or their home phone, but it is getting to the point where validation is a requirement.
I mean, just look at GK admitting to causing problems using such a server. (ignoring the childish threats and all)
It's coming, whether we like it or not, all because of a few idiots that feel they are entitled to do as they please on anyones web site.
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