It is one thing not liking someone and as i said it is entirely your right. But to run around telling blatant lies about someone is simply unacceptable. You seem to think or at least your comments illustrate this, that the only thing I have done is campaign against Phorm. You are wrong – I spend around 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week dealing with dozens of companies for which I have received complaints about. I spend dozens of hours a month giving press interviews on various issues I am working on. I spent scores of hours a month writing papers for various government inquiries or for research purposes. So no, I don’t have an axe to grind, I work for Privacy International, it is my job to work on privacy issues – I would have thought that much would be obvious.

As for my “involvement with the Lib Dems” you must be hallucinating. I have no involvement with any political party – I was once a card holding member of the Lib Dem party but that was over 5 years ago, I currently am not a member of any political party but even if I was what business is that of yours and exactly what relevance does it have with regards to my work?

Now as I said, it is clear you don’t like me and that is entirely your right, but if you want to try and discredit me please use facts rather than just making stuff up. I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I have many flaws just like everyone else – but for over 2 years now I have been committed to Privacy work, work I don’t get paid for, so to suggest I am in it for any reason other than because I want to be is truly laughable. People don’t give up over 40k GBP to support their work unless they are truly passionate about it; people don’t turn down 6 figure salary offers so they can continue their work if they are not passionate about it. I turned down 8 high paid job offers last years, 3 of which offered 6 figure salaries – but I didn’t sell out.

Anon, what have you done for the greater good of society in the last 2 years?

And you do talk BS when you say that you don’t want to be a MP – because your involvement in the Lib Dems is very well known. I just think that the party does not want you there…

If I wanted to become an MP I would have stood for election 4 years ago when a seat became available in my area.

I don’t know who you are but you obviously have an axe to grind – that entirely your right I have plenty of critics, but I can assure you I wouldn’t have put the amount of time, energy and resources into my privacy work if I had some hidden agenda.

Alex’s dream is to become a MP in the House of Commons…..

1. A fixed cost per title of 3-5 euros
2. A flat rate tiered subscription based service where users paid a set amount each month, each tier would allow them to download more movies.

I offered ALL direct revenues to the MPAA (whether they chose the cost per title or the subscription model) on the condition that I would be permitted to keep any revenues raised by putting ads on the site. So they were made a pretty good deal in my opinion. But like I said, they were (and still are) too short sighted to accept it.

I didn’t hear from the MPAA until several months later in 2005 they wanted me to give them all our server logs and identify staff as part of a settlement – I refused – they took me to court. They were looking for 150 million USD in damages – in December 2005 the court awarded them damages of 40 000 USD by default (because I refused to defend the case on jurisdictional grounds). They are completely unable to enforce that judgement on jurisdictional grounds because a judgement by a US judge in a US court cannot be enforced against a UK citizen living in the UK.

The article you linked too was an assumption the case had been dropped because I had heard nothing for over 3 years. I found out just last year that a default judgement had been made – I was never made aware of the judgement by either the MPAA Lawyers or the Court that made the judgement.

Alexander Hanff can say if it’s wrong, but it looks like according to this article the MPAA basically dropped the case, if not officially then just by failing to pursue it once the offending site was shut down.
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-drops-bittorrent-case-080503/

I’m sure they ran a cost/benefit analysis and came to the conclusion that they had already achieved their major objective, which was to get the site offline, and it wasn’t worth the effort to pursue the matter in a foreign court for punitive damages.

Alex’s name may not be well known but his battle with Phorm certainly was. I like to think I helped in my own small way through highlighting it on various forums and making sure as many people as possible new the dangers of Phorm. I even had a latter published in the local press and lobbied my MP, but nothing compared to what Alex did. It is because of him that people like me got involved and because of him that it became such a huge issue. Thanks to Alex, and the rest of us in much, much smaller ways, Phorm is dead in the UK, almost went bankrupt, Europe got involved and our Government and BT got themselves in hot water. So good on you Alex and I hope you you stick it Virgin and their DPI plans (even though I’m not with Virgin) as that should also help to derail Lord Mandy’s plans to use DPI to spy on all of us.

Someone has another plan for your bosses, troll! And this is frightening!

Haha!

The troll paid by the corporate parasites and criminal are showing up now!

Interesting!

Purrently it says:

“…the man who later brought data pirate brought Phorm to its knees, for 150 million dollars for owning DVDR-CORE, the DVD bittorrent community.”

***That makes no sense at all.***

Quiet? On the contrary I have been incredibly busy and incredibly vocal, my energies have been focused on privacy issues not p2p. But thanks for the “support”.

Or is Mr. Hanff, possibly bankrupt and permanently unemployed, now living in a cardboard box under a bridge and dumpster-diving to stay alive — to serve as an example to other torrent site admins of what can happen to someone who gets on the wrong side of the Hollywood MAFIAA?

For someone who was once an active *and vocal* part of the torrent and p2p scene, things have been curiously quiet these last few years.

I just wanted to re-iterate that I am doing this to raise funds to help with my continuing privacy work. This includes my ongoing lobbying against the use of DPI to detect filesharers (Virgin Media/CView in the UK and HADOPI in France) as well as other privacy projects I am currently managing and developing. This work takes a great deal of time, energy and resources and is all unpaid – so whoever buys this will not just be buying a piece of P2P history they will also be supporting my work – which I hope most will agree, is very important.

Thanks,

Alexander Hanff