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Originally Posted by Spirit13
but REAL world IP's can be traced back to the network provider, the city and state. The network provider is required to maintain the DHCP log of what account had what IP for 2 years....
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FWIW, this is not true - there have been attempts to compel service providers in the US to retain this type of information, but none have been successful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom...#United_States
On the other hand, you can be sure that a commercial ISP will retain this type of information for as long as they think they need to to support their billing...