In the Reuters article above it says Atari, Techland and Codemasters. I assume the fourth is Zuxxez Entertainment (makers of Dream Pinball). So who’s the fifth?

Any ideas what games they are targetting? Thanks.

if using a p2p client with forced encryption, can ISP’s only see packet headers? if so, the payload of the packet is hidden. (torrenting freeware FTW).

european law has clarified that IP traffic is personally identifiable information, with this in mind, is the use of sandvine etc. a breach of the Data Protection Act on the part of ISP’s.

ISP’s do not own the network or the traffic. right? just the hardware?

MY POINT: if ISP’s use DPI to identify the payload of a packet, are they breaking the law?

Good luck guys

Playing Devil’s advocate for a second, you could suggest that Mr Coyle is in bed with a software company looking for info on potential sharers of their software.

IP logs and other harvesting techniques may be fallible, but admit your misdemeanours to Mikey boy and he’s got it there in black and white!

What better way to catch people than to offer “free legal advice” in order to gather evidence?

Thanks Ernesto for this important story, and than you Michael Coyle & all at LAWDIT for giving help & hope to all those wrongly accused of filesharing copyrighted materials!

I doubt that much wifi theft occurs – people just wouldn’t be bothered. Why not just use your own internet connection at home?

@15: Yes, I CAN see hundreds of people pirating this. People will pirate $5 DVDs and music or just anything – it’s just so much easier than buying it – then you have to go to a shop, or at least find your credit card number to buy online. That is NOT to say that everyone accused in this case did download the game.

Will Michael Coyle take on cases where people admit to downloading the game? What is currently the best strategy if you did actually do it?

It would be nice to have a guy like that in the US if worse comes to worse.

Even if some people have DLed the pinball game there are plenty who haven’t and they deserve the right of reply to the accusations.

Props to Michael Coyle for giving them the chance.

I’m sure plenty of people have downloaded it, but I’m also sure that plenty of others haven’t. Davenport Lyons doesn’t seem to be the type of group to care.

Things like this seem to be a rare occurrence in the torrenting world, it’s good to see someone with some position of power that seems to “get it” and is willing to help out.

Top of the day to you Michael Coyle.
The good work keeps getting better.

TC,

Bye.

“The majority WILL have downloaded that sh1tty pinball game and haven’t got a case to fight.”

Judging from the number of posts on Slyck.com denying that they ever downloaded or shared Dream Pinball 3D, or any of the other games Davenport Lyons is sending people legal threat letters over, it is likely that the opposite is true. In many cases, it appears to be due to unsecured wi-fi. And some say Logistep’s methods of identifying potential infringers is even worse
than that of Media Sentry.