>> (Mercifully, it's virtually impossible to determine who an IP address 
>> belongs to...)
> 
> Why would that be?

...because every minute of every hour, hundreds of thousands of people 
connect to a given ISP and get assigned new IP addresses purely at random?

> Your ISP knows who's connecting to them and what IP 
> address has been assigned to them. If the company keeps its own logs 
> then it's simply a matter of matching up times.

Excep that I'm almost certain that it's illegal for ISPs to give out 
that kind of information. (I'm also almost certain they don't even 
record it in the first place, because it would be too hard.)

> Come the official police 
> state and we'll all have fixed IP addresses tied to our ID cards and 
> it'll be a criminal offence to use a different one.

Yeah, ain't that the truth...

> On an even easier note if you've signed up to Google (or don't clear 
> your cookies) and did the search there then they at least know exactly 
> who you are and what you like to search for; all it'll take is a court 
> order and voila.

Again, how do they get their hands on cookies for a different domain?

(Also, what do you mean "sign up to Google"?)

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