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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If that is true and proven they will get their asses handed to them on a plate in court. Do you have proof they did not care, that they obtained IP addresses of people who were not flagged for downloading pirated content.
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Yes, the proof is in the CEOs emails that are circulating on the torrents, that he sent out to clients - something like GBP200k from teh first round that settle without comment, 100kGBP if they hire a lawyer to send a reply and then settle, and 50kGBP on if it goes to trial, since the law firm then takes more of a percentage.
I'm paraphrasing those values, but it was something like that.
I'm absolutely not going to post excerpts from a private email that was given out publicly by the lawfirm's website and seeded across torrents because the emails state that the email was meant for the recipient only etc etc, and so by pasting it here would be stupid.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
As I said before I've watched this industry be decimated by pirates. That's hitting you and me in our pockets. Some are not as comfortable as me, some will have to go find new jobs, some will lose their homes and so far nothing has been done to stop pirates.
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Bien entendu - fully understood.
However, this is *not* the way to go about it in my opinion. This *is* tantamount to blackmail, since it is "guilty until proven innocent" and was tried (and mostly dropped I believe) by the MPAA/RIAA because of the high profile false positives.
At one point, the mainstream movie makers looked to the porn industry for ideas, but this is way behind them. It can only backfire 10 times as hard for this industry due to the nature of the companies hiring these lawyers - just look at how much this ACS:Law fuckup has gotten in the mainstream... purely *because* it involves adult material.
I have no problem whatsoever sending a big fuck you reply to anyone that sends me any of these types of demands and will go the whole hog to defind myself and my internet connection in court, but like it's said many people will prefare to settle the 500GBP "fine" since at one point or other, their computer probably was used to watch pornography, maybe not illegally, but they don't want anything pornography-related affiliated with their name in public (which a court summonse would do).
I was against from day one cross sales that many people were for for the reason it was trickery, just as I am fully against this as a means of fighting piracy since it's thuggery.
