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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So getting your name posted on a list made public that you downloaded pirated porn is not going to make a few people think WTF if I get caught.
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Courts live off the more work they get. Or are you saying they are sick of judging criminals?
I'm sick of pirates claiming they should not be prosecuted because an innocent person might get caught. Or it's too much trouble to go after them.
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Paul - I know your position, but download the torrent and open up the emails in thunderbird. This company didn't even care whether the IPs/names they had were real pirates or not. Their
raison d'être was purely to send out X thousand claims to the names they identified by IP logs, preaching to their clients (ie copyright holders) you will get XXXkGBP per thousand letters ont he first round, XXk on the second round etc.
It was touted as a third untapped income.
That is what this stinks to high heaven about, which others are now jumping onto in the US.
I hope they get landed the half million GBP fine for this major fuckup, because they get what they deserve. This was already covered last year by the BBC and Which as a "guilty until proven innocent" bully tactic and it stinks.