Comments on: UK Lawyers Promise First Court Action Against File-Sharers

By: 88

88 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:29:42 +0000

yES I HAVE RECIEVED 2 LETTERS SO FAR ONE REQUESTING £500 FOR DOWNLOADING THE SCOOTER ALBUM AND A SECOND LETTER STATING THAT THEY WILL NOT ACCCEPT MY 1ST LETTER AS IT WAS TAKEN FROM A FORUM …

By: annon

annon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:42:55 +0000

hi all i have recieved a letter from acs:law they are wanting me to pay 500.07 for a scooter jumping all over the world. i have contacted sky and after numerous phone calls they told me that they had released my detail s to this company i just dont know what to do i have cancelled all my services with them as i feel they have breached customer confidentiality they said the were order by court to do so. but i havent even heard of scooter and all they keep saying is have you kids

By: bald1

bald1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:02:41 +0000

so has anybody actually recieved any letters from these guys?

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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:12:47 +0000

[...] UK Lawyers Promise First Court Action Against File-Sharers Since 2007, the UK has seen thousands of postal threats to take alleged file-sharers to court. But aside from getting default judgments against a handful easy targets who didn’t try to defend themselves, the majority of threats have come to nothing. Lawyers ACS:Law are now promising to step up to the mark and bring their first court cases in Britain. [...]

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:11:34 +0000

With regards to an open wifi connection, why bother anyway? The protection can easily be cracked with the correct tools.

Let’s also not forget that some ISPs choose to nerf their routers so that the end user has virtually no controls whatsoever. My Virgin router only allows the changing of the admin password (doesn’t actually work) and the Wireless Network Key.

To change the key one must either leave the admin password at it’s default setting, or factory-reset the unit.

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:47:07 +0000

Yeah, good luck with that.

ACS:Law is an ass.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:17:11 +0000

Back when Davenport/Davenporn (either is fitting here) Lyons was pulling the same stunt ACS:Law are doing now, they claimed to have actually won default judgements against four defendants. One of those was alleged to be a Polish woman. Alleged, because there were no court documents whatsoever. Which called into question the very existence of those cases in the first place.

Likely the same thing will happen with ACS:Law. A lot of their tactics as mentioned in the Slyck.com thread about this are quite similar.

The one thing these shysters do not want is a strong defense. That would make their entire extortion plot fall apart like a house of cards. Thus they go after those who aren’t defending themselves (even going so far as to make imaginary claims).

By: Inocentsforjustice

Inocentsforjustice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:22:39 +0000

This ACS:Law bunch are the real criminals here, blurting their scary words and sending out 1000`s of nastygrams demanding monies with menances and hiding behind their virtual office locations, these guys should be operating out of Nigeria not the UK, I say put a stop to this “Speculative Invoicing”

By: JTK

JTK — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:38:36 +0000

This won’t work if people know what they’re doing, but as the article said they’ll probably go after people who don’t.

PPUK FTW I guess?

By: Reznik

Reznik — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:12:42 +0000

WTF!!! There actually gonna sue people who illegally download or upload in UK