ACS:Law-type scams ‘big business’
p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- From Jazz over in the UK, “I wonder if ACS Law would subscribe to the ‘No Publicity is Bad Publicity’ theory? They’re certainly getting their share and none of it’s good.
“Have a look at these:
- Lord Lucas: Blasts Anti-Piracy Lawyers (ACS LAW?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEnZ1AuDDk; - Lord Lucas: “ACS LAW Civil action is uncivil”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s-Y_q-IFNI; - ACS LAW accused of “Harassment bullying and intrusion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5GaZV8O1WM; and - “Anti Piracy” Law Firms labeled a Scam in the House of Lords
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORBfs3QCvTY.”
As Jazz points out, they’re all House of Lords GooTube videos in which ACS:Law is singled out for special negative comment.
Andrew Crossley is the man behind it having more or less cloned a technique which originated with Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA, to wit:
- Get the names and addresses and addresses of people might, or might not (doesn’t really matter) have been sharing digital files online.
- Send them threatening demands and watch the money roll in.
Says TorrentFreak >>>
Since 2007, UK file-sharers have been threatened with legal action if they refused to pay several hundred pounds in damages for alleged copyright infringements. It started with the respected law firm Davenport Lyons, but when they dropped out as their reputation started to suffer, ACS:Law stepped in.
Although the threats and accusations are often sent to the wrong people due to the shoddy evidence gathering techniques employed, thousands have paid off the copyright holders fearing they would end up being in more trouble if they ignored the threats. The scheme has proven to be profitable for all parties involved, except those receiving the letters.
It goes on >>>
Lord Lucas accusing the law firm involved of “harassment, bullying and intrusion”. But the criticism of ACS:Law didn’t stop there.
Noting that it could cost around £10,000 for those accused to protest their innocence, but a payment of ‘only’ £500 to make the accusations go away, Lord Lucas called the scheme “straightforward legal blackmail”.
As Lord Clement-Jones points out in a GooTube item, “This is becoming big business … and does nothing to protect the proper and legitimate rights of copyright owners”, with the pic on the right clipped into the video.
The composite originates with The ACS/Davenport Business Model Scam site.
“Here are a few links to get acquainted with those who accuse you of file sharing,” says Received a letter from ACS LAW? Dont panic, going on >>>
This is a scam legitimate business model!!!!
- Click here for help at the Beingthreatened website*
- Click here for some background on ACS LAW
and their cronies - Click here to go to the SLYCK Forums
concerning this subject - A YOUTUBE Channel dedicated to highlighting ACS LAW
- ACS BORE Facebook group
- LOGISTEP IP TRACKERS Facebook group
Launching ramp for extortion letters
Earlier today, “ACS:Law, currently under investigation by Britain’s Solicitors Regulation Authority, and infamous as a launching ramp for extortion letters aimed at alleged file sharers, has received the kiss of death —-
—- from no less than Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry),” said p2pnet.
The BPI is “putting clear water between itself and ACS Law,” said PC Pro.
“We don’t favour the approach taken by ACS:Law to tackling illegal file-sharing, which is at odds with the proportionate and graduated response advocated by BPI and proposed in the Digital Economy Bill,” says the BPI, according to PC Pro.
“We uphold the highest standards of evidence, and our view is that legal action is best reserved for the most persistent or serious offenders – rather than widely used as a first response”, says the BPI.
But as p2pnet stressed, ‘Graduated response’ is just a euphemism for the three strikes and you’re off the net element of the entertainment industry’s international ACTA campaign.
“Under it, Big Music and Hollywood are trying to suborn governments into acting as copyright agents, and local ISPs as enforcers, working against their own customers,” we said, adding:
“ACTA is far worse than anything ACS:Law can come up with.”
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
TorrentFreak – Anti-Piracy Scheme “A Scam & Legal Blackmail” Say UK Lords, January 28, 2010
under investigation – New ACS:Law shakedown letters, January 27, 2010
p2pnet – ACS:Law gets kiss of death from Big Music, January 28, 2010
PC Pro – BPI distances itself from file-sharing lawyers, January 27, 2010
ACTA campaign – ACTA documents: official and leaked, January 26, 2010
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January 28th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Crossley actually claims their tracking process makes SPOOFING a “non-issue”??!
I guess these people can get away with saying anything they want then.
Talk about SCUM!
January 29th, 2010 at 9:36 am
The Process in which they gather the ip addy’s has never ever bin open to investigation, and they refuse point blank to have anyone appointed (even by the courts, an example of this was done in germany) to look into their techniques.
in my opinion if they were to look into it , and find flaws in the system, then one will see the lawyers and the anti-piracy companies in court quicker than one can say “Holy Shit!!!”.