Free download - Speculate to accumulate: mass lawsuits and P2P

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Free download - Speculate to accumulate: mass lawsuits and P2P

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• Publié par: ijefyhaw
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• Langue: English

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the  REPORT Issue 254 | 14 October 2010

Speculate to accumulate: mass lawsuits and P2P

In 2007, shortly beore the RIAA revealed that it was to cease pursuing individual filesharers, noted law firm Davenport Lyons began serving orders to broadband ISPs in the UK demanding details o thousands o customers alleged to have shared a pinball videogame. Once the names and addresses o each customer were secured – usually in exchange or a hety payment to the ISP – the alleged filesharers were threatened with court unless they coughed up a payment usually totalling hundreds o pounds. Even back then the process was raught with controversy. Logistep, one o the companies used to pick up this kind o data, was warned that its activities violated Swiss telecoms law. One o Logistep’s lawyers, caught cashing payments into a private account, was suspended rom practising. Consumer group Which? and the BBC’s Watchdog programme piled in, accusing Davenport Lyons o bullying Two years aſter US major labels gave up on suing i a n c n c o u c si e n n g t    m OA e P m s  b o e  r   s d   o o w  t n h l e o   a p d u i b n l g ic     h b a y r   d a c l o s r e e l   y  individual file-sharers, a variety of smaller movie, music s p t o e r p n p o e g d r   a b p a h c y k .      I r n o  M m a  s y p  2 e 0 cu 0 l 9 a , t   i D v a e  v i e n n v p oi o c r i t n  L g y ,  ons  and games companies are sending out “speculative a h n a d n   d t i e n m g  p it la s  t c e l   i l e e n tt t  e b rs a   s t e o ,     A so CS m  L e  a st w a .   A   n m d e re m w b   ers  invoices” to members of the public threatening court if Crossley, the onemanband behind ACS, they fail to pay up. We discover how the numbers stack h R a e d g   u p l r a e ti v o io n  u A sl u y t   h b o e r e it n y     f  i o n r e   d a   i b li y n  t g h  t e o     S p o r li o c v i i t d o e r   s  up and investigate whether the money is worth the t h h is e     a a c c c c o o u u n n t t s s .     o N   o B w r   it h is e  h w  c a it n i t z e e d n   s t   o a  l c o c o u k s   e in d s   i o d   e  inevitable PR backlash. uploading copyrighted files.

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