They get to grease up each others toes at Christmas, Dont worry about IP`s if someone wants to find out about you, its all there online, if you know where to look. nearly every site you visit will drop a cookie on your connection. from this they can learn everything you do online, big business and a shed load of money made this way, tailoring adverts for individual people based on the browsing habits, if you are that paranoid then dont use the internet or a cash point. or pay for anything on a card, dont order from anywhere, but they still collect information. 1984 and all that is now obsolete