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Originally Posted by minimum
Please don't ignore the letters. Write back telling them what they want to know and you might be alright. I have a feeling they will take someone to court but it is more likely to be the ones who ignore them.
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They have taken at least 1 person to court and won
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7568642.stm
Your right though, she didn't turn up to defend herself, meaning the court had little choice but to find against her, something they surprisingly chose not to advertise when falsely claiming they had won a
'landmark' victory, oh and they also lied about how much they won as well!
Annoyingly these shysters are making a real killing now, they have sent out thousands of letters
Of course, this probably means that Evil Angel is only getting $50 (or maybe even less) per "settlement" leaving somewhere in the range of $700 (depends on the exchange rate) for Davenport Lyons and DigiProtect to split. For doing what? Getting some IP addresses and sending out auto-generated form letters. Nice margins, but sort of proves that these settlements have nothing to do with compensating the content creator.
There was a government petition, unfortunately it wasn't very well advertised and only a couple of hundred people signed it
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/InfComISPDatProt/