content: Not sure about the US. Here (Italy) only the ISP is forced to log IPs and keep them for, i believe, 6 months. As a website owner you have no obligation to log anything (or so i believe), after all, it would be as silly as requiring you to keep a log of everyone visiting your home... it would clearly be unacceptable in a free country, unfortunately when Internet is involved many things that would clearly be unacceptable suddenly become "reasonable". If you think about it... the ISP that logs everything you do online is clearly unacceptable too if applied in the "real world". It is like having someone that comes everywhere you go, taking notes of everything you do, everyone you talk to, every newspaper/book you read... and store these notes for months or years only to turn this information to your government if they ever want an excuse to punish you. As soon as you draw a similarity in the real-world you clearly see that this is a blatant abuse... but since this abuse happens online it suddenly becomes "reasonable" in the eyes of many. They are right when they say that Internet is the wild-west... but not for the reasons they believe. It is a wild-west were the governments can do pretty much anything and where our rights are pretty much ignored every single day. There is a need for laws... but laws that restrict the government online exactly as there are laws that restrict the government in "real life".