The US seems to be everyone’s scapegoat atm. Remember that the reason these big companies are the ones causing the uproar with us because the majority of the pirated material comes from them. Look at the top 100 torrents on TPB. Most of that is made or produced by US Companies. Im not trying to give them a break with how they are handling things but I think this “blame the us” bullshit has to stop.

They’ve got them dead to rights for obstruction of justice and racketeering, the combination of which triggers triple damages – not to mention jail time. Or does no one else notice the parallels between “Pay me $1000 “protection money” or I’ll force you to close your store” and “Pay me $1000 using the info I misused the federal courts to subpoena or I sue you for $100000 with a meritless claim”?

I know because it was me who reported it to them as I found it strange that obvious criminals seem to be able to do as they want and yet traded since then not only at Hull Fair but also the Walton Street market in Hull.

I might add that file-sharing is such a technologically advanced concept that those middle-aged legislator men and women in grey suits don’t know how to approach it due to lack of understanding. They do know what a rip-off DvD looks like on a dodgy market corner though.

(Sorry for the extreme generalization and stereotyping of middle-aged people and people who own grey suits.)

Davenport Lyons are planning on sending out another few thousand letters similar to the previous ones. The more people they try to sue, the more uproar will be created and action will be taken – especially if they happen to sue a solicitor who is vengeful by nature.

I’m pretty sure the Dream Pinball legal threats were entrapment. The rest of the games were cashing in on the success of the Pinball suings.

Ignorant comment my man, do your research on a certain Dirk P Hassinger, he’s a German ex Jailbird who came up with this scam.

He is the CEO of Topware, he is responsible for 1,000′s of file sharers being threatened all over Europe, he is closely linked to Logistep the IP address providers to Davenport Lyons, Logistep have been discredited all over Europe and the UK is now their happy hunting ground.

Topware I believe is quite happy to see one of its second rate games released onto the file sharing scene so they can go and persecute people they accuse of downloading their 3rd rate products!