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

Posted by timothy on from the my-god-it's-full-of-laws dept.

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."

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. It will never end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We'll build a decentralized network before we allow you to dictate which information we may copy. We have the technology, we have the know how and you're giving us the motivation.

  2. Re:Better in Italy by Smegly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sadly the left-wing gov we have ...

    Check your political compass... you can't talk about left/right with without also including the Authoritarian/Libertarian axis. Yeah, it requires slightly more effort than linear left/right thought... probably why you never hear it mentioned when the general population talk politics.