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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."

3 of 200 comments (clear)

  1. Fabricated - It's the PIRATE Bey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's fake.

  2. Re:Duh by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good advice.

    I'd probably send a "fuck off" reply but your solution is better. Like internet trolls/baiters, ignoring is probably the best policy.

    --
    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  3. Re:Common strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How is it not off-topic?

    You're cross because you get caught.

    Don't like the responsibility to drive at or below the posted speed? Don't drive. I know it feels great zipping along, shaving a few seconds off your arrival time, and with only a comparatively small chance of ploughing through some school girl and ending her life.

    "Your honour, my client is a good man, and wants to pretend that being 'Sorry' somehow makes up for his day-in day-out recklessness. Please let him go free to enjoy the rest of his life as if nothing had happened."

    Stop being a cunt, that's my recommendation.