Should I be worried?

I am aware of 'a poorly bird of prey' (ill eagle) P2P downloading.
I have NOT (knowlingly) downloaded anything illegal so I should be 'safe'.
I even opted out of Fon as a precaution so nobody can use MY details to log onto a Fon spot (if I've been hacked into) and bought a PAYG wifi dongle (registered to my name and address) so if and when I'm out and about I can use the dongle rather than logging into a Fon spot.
But having read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10183820.stm I'm still a little bit worried.
(from the above link) "Names and the number of times individuals infringe will be logged".
The reason for the post is due to what technology/information is used to identify me as an individual.
What if someone created an email account with my name/details and logged into an illegal site.
Building up to all this I've looked into mac address spoofing and it seems that anybody can do this.
Please DON'T delete this as you are my ISP and you are mentioned in the above link.
("Initially the code will only apply to ISPs that have more than 400,000 customers. This includes BT," plus several other ISPs).
Thanks in advance for any help in answering my question / putting my mind at ease as "Technology is brilliant but sometimes is scares me".
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DS wrote:
But having read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10183820.stm I'm still a little bit worried.
(from the above link) "Names and the number of times individuals infringe will be logged".
The reason for the post is due to what technology/information is used to identify me as an individual.
I'd imagine it'd work backwards from the IP address of the "offender", which can be linked to an ISP, whose records can connect a particular IP address at a particular date/time to an individual account.
What if someone created an email account with my name/details and logged into an illegal site.
While some folks might think an email account/address alone identifies an individual, it doesn't.
Building up to all this I've looked into mac address spoofing and it seems that anybody can do this.
It can be done, but I don't see that as a problem in this context.

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