Comments on: Accused of Illegal File-Sharing? Complain to the Government http://torrentfreak.com/accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Nemo /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519976 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:19:27 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519976 The High Court Order under which IPs released names and addresses can be found at:
http://www.digiprotect.org/html/hc_london_300608.html
The judge who made the order Chief Master Winegarten is highly respected but clearly not IT literate in that he approved an order which states:
AND UPON reading the documents marked in the Court file as having been read and it appearing that there is a prima facie case that each of the subscribers associated with the IP addresses listed in Schedule 1 to this Order have copied the Applicant’s work(s) on to his or her personal or office Computer (the “Work(s)”) without the Applicant’s permission for the purpose of making it available via file sharing Websites for third parties to download, which may give rise to a claim for Copyright infringement;
The order is such utter codswallop that any lawyer could have had it overturned in ten minutes; British IPs did not have it overturned because they are happy to go along with anything that discourages people from using the service that they have paid for.
In the UK IPs are allowed to advertise UNLIMITED downloads, but then put so called fair usage clauses in the small print.

]]> By: Užrašai iš skaitmeninio fronto #10 : nežinau.lt /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519535 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:33:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519535 [...] Karalyst?je žmon?s, kurie buvo neteis?tai apkaltinti nelegaliais fail? mainais, raginami sk?sti pinig? prievartautojus valstyb?s institucijoms. TorrentFreak net skundo šablon? paruoš? tokiems atvejams, kuri?, deja, yra ne vienas ir ne [...]

]]> By: nocomments /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519534 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:32:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519534 the davenport lyons your IP:217.29.195.33 was involved in illegal fileshring activities.
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]]> By: Davenport Lyons /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519532 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:50:45 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519532 We do it for the money and frankly speaking it’s easy and does not involved any hard work.
Davenport Lyons.
30 Old Burlington Street
London W1S 3NL
Tel: (+44) 020 7468 2600
Fax: (+44) 020 7437 8216

]]> By: Protestas de los internautas británicos poniendo el caso español Promusicae vs. Telefónica como ejemplo /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519397 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:09:39 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519397 [...] ha levantado bastante indignación entre los internautas británicos. Desde TorrentFreak, se ha colgado un modelo de carta de protesta que los afectados están utilizando para pedir la [...]

]]> By: Anonymous /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-519038 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:46:19 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-519038 PLS Click: http://www.iHateCandy.de.gp/

]]> By: me /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-518786 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:24:36 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-518786 Davenport lyons now have the attention of bbc watchdog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2008/12/davenport_lyons_threatening_le.html

]]> By: Accused of Illegal File-Sharing? Complain to the Government | CyberLaw Blog /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-518767 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:16:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-518767 [...] Accused of Illegal File-Sharing? Complain to the Government: “ [...]

]]> By: penumbra /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-518604 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:54:42 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-518604 @37
Meh, your “…”s are hiding a wealth of legalese information very pertinent to the argument. And you’re wrong on the waffle front.

The UK are interpreting their “…”s far more broadly than the 2002 E privacy directive allows. Note that a directive *requires* member states to achieve a particular result, just without dictating the means of achieving that result. The E Privacy directive *requires* governments to legislate proportionately. The UK is not.

Italy, Germany and Spain are interpreting it correctly, as backed up by the EJC. This needs to be fixed in the UK.

Of course, writing to government never works – there is no true democracy, yaddah yaddah yaddah. We may as well just sit at home and not bother and have all our personal details sold to the highest bidder and not make a squeak about it.

Or not.

]]> By: meh /accused-of-illegal-file-sharing-complain-to-the-government-081205/#comment-518300 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:42:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=6210#comment-518300 So where is it against the DPA?

“UK ISPs were ordered … by the High Court”
“Personal data are exempt from the non-disclosure provisions where the disclosure is required by … order of a court.”

Unless the high court stopped being classed as a court, that falls squarely within the exemptions.

The stuff about the EU is just waffle. Member states are “not obliged” to hand over details in copyright cases, but that is nothing like saying that member states must not hand over the data.

The rest of the text about the EU is non-binding decisions, opinions and “ought to’s”. Hardly enough to make the ICO tell the high court where to stick it.

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