Profitable 'Pay Us Or We'll Sue You For File Sharing' Scheme Abo...

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Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 11/25/2009 - 19:26

Remember ACS:Law? The shakedown organization that appears to have taken over where Davenport Lyons left off (including using some of the identical documents), and who has "partnered" with DigiProtect, the company that gleefully admits that it purposely puts files on file sharing networks just to collect the IP addresses of anyone who downloads, is asking for the identifying info on 30,000 UK users .

To put that in perspective, in the years long campaign by the RIAA...

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