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UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats

Posted by timothy on from the who-would-have-thought dept.

Khyber writes "A recent DDoS attack against a UK-based anti-pirating firm, ACS:Law, has resulted in a large backup archive of the server contents being made available for download, [and this archive] is now being hosted by the Pirate Bay. Within this archive are e-mails from Andrew Crossley basically admitting that he is running a scam job, sending out thousands of frivolous legal threats on the premise that a percentage pay up immediately to avoid legal hassles."

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  1. mod 3Own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ops or any of t4e is the worst off revel in our gay AND MICHAEL SMITH

  2. Re:Not just piracy... by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Redundant

    >>>a guy who sent a bunch of random invoices to mid-size companies and a few of them got paid.

    Hmmmm.

    There's actually just two companies I'd target - the ones who didn't pay me for my last week of work.

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