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30,000 UK ISP Users Face Threat Letters For Suspected Illegal File Sharing

Mark.JUK writes with this excerpt from ISP Review: "Solicitors at ACS:Law have been granted approval by the Royal Courts of Justice in London to demand the private personal details of some 30,000 customers suspected of involvement with illegal file sharing from UK broadband ISPs. The customers concerned are 'suspected' of illegally file sharing (P2P) approximately 291 movie titles, they now face threatening demands for money (settlement) or risk the prospect of court action. It's noted that 25,000 of the IP addresses that have been collected belong to BT users."

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  1. Something-Something Wants to be Free by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll build a decentralized network before we allow you to dictate which information we may copy.

    Information? I thought it was Hollywood movies that were being copied and distributed...?

  2. Re:Politicians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I did not have bittorrential relations with that tracker"

  3. Re:Politicians by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I connected, but I didn't download."

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  4. Re:No, you won't by sopssa · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a kid we also pulled lan cables with my brother from my room to his room. Every day, because it didn't fit under the doors and wasn't built-in to the house. Then we played Counter-Strike beta 6 and GTA 2.

    And no government in our darknet!

  5. Re:go on, complain, I dare you by jank1887 · · Score: 4, Funny

    right there in 5.3(a): ... download ... any material that is ...pornographic.

    Boom. no porn. if people followed that, half of the IP space on the net would be freed up immediately. IPV6 adoption could be pushed off for another few decades.

  6. Re:Politicians by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You got stuck at 99% too, huh?

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  7. Re:It's not Nineteen Eighty-Four by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those bastards! They copied my flat-screen TV!