As described in Part II, the most crucial element of copyright trolls’ settlement letter factory business model is finding out the true identities of the anonymous IP addresses, as this allows plaintiffs to send settlement offers. Until the plaintiffs convince the court that they intend to actually litigate the claim of copyright infringement— and are not simply fishing for names and addresses to send settlement offers—the court should keep the true identities of the alleged infringers hidden from the plaintiffs.