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.
In 2007, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons (DL) appeared on the anti-piracy (revenue generation) scene. Their clients employed anti-piracy tracking companies like Logistep to gather IP-addresses of users allegedly sharing video games, and used this info to get court orders to force ISPs to hand over their names and addresses.
The next phase was to write to the individuals and threaten them with legal action, unless they paid several hundred pounds. Some panicked and paid up, most did not. Only a handful of these cases actually went to court and DL won them all, because the individuals didn’t defend themselves.
More: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-lawyers-promise-first-court-action-against-file-sharers-090907/
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In 2007, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons (DL) appeared on the anti-piracy (revenue generation) scene. Their clients employed anti-piracy tracking companies like Logistep to gather IP-addresses of users allegedly sharing video games, and used this info to get court orders to force ISPs to hand over their names and addresses.
The next phase was to write to the individuals and threaten them with legal action, unless they paid several hundred pounds. Some panicked and paid up, most did not. Only a handful of these cases actually went to court and DL won them all, because the individuals didn’t defend themselves.
More: http://torrentfreak.com/uk-lawyers-promise-first-court-action-against-file-sharers-090907/
