Thursday, 27 May 2010

ACS:LAW The heartwarming story of Andrew Jonathon Crossley (Or how he overcame financial problems to fleece the innocent... allegedly)

How heart warming it is to see that a man who as a result of being clinically depressed in 1999 suffered a stroke which in turn caused temporary complete blindness which in turn caused him to be unable to file his solicitors accounts on time or even at all for FIVE separate periods totalling FORTY-EIGHT months between periods ending 31st Dec 1999 and 31st December 2003, a period during which coincidentally this poor man was forced to enter into an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement), was fined and ordered to be suspended indefinitely by an SRA tribunal in 2002, a man who had to face the further ignominy and trauma of a second disciplinary hearing in 2006 has recovered from this clinical depression and blindness enough to not only rebuild a career but a career as a successful* solicitor no less.

I hope all those Innocent falsely accused people who are currently experiencing financial troubles can draw some strength from this brave mans story for it appears (from his own website at least) that he is achieving a massive 80% success rate with his speculative invoicing campaign which by my rough calculations means his letter drop of 2009 has netted him in excess of £2.25m from internet users.

Let this man Andrew Jonathon Crossley be an inspiration in your darkest moments, let his triumph over depression, blindness indebtedness and insolvency spur you on.

That a man who for years was unable to get to grips with the numbers involved with his own basic practice accounts can just a few years later become an expert legal pioneer in the field of IP address’s and forensics is remarkable and gives me hope that one day I might yet go on to become a rocket scientist or invent the time-machine despite my poor showing in pure and applied maths and physics at A level.

The full story. LINK

The only Andrew J Crossley registered with the law society, (admission date 15/07/1991 see disciplinary report). LINK

* Well not that successful if you were to ask Vince Acors the Dubai "sex on the beach" chappie.
LINK

Who was Vince Acors PR man?*

Andrew J Crossley has been the subject of not one but TWO SRA tribunals involving failure to submit accounts. The previous hearing took place in December 2002, here's the decision:
"..the Tribunal could not allow the current failures on the part of the Respondent to continue indefinitely. For this reason, the Tribunal ordered that the Respondent be suspended from practice for an indefinite period to commence on the 31st January 2003 but confirmed that should he regularise his position and file his outstanding annual Accountant’s Reports with The Law Society by that date then the sanction imposed upon him by the Tribunal would be that of a reprimand and not a suspension. It was right that the Respondent should pay the Applicant’s costs and the Tribunal ordered that these be paid in the fixed sum of £1,250 plus VAT, a figure with which the Respondent agreed.”

(The Respondent did regularise his position and was reprimanded)

* We now know that the PR guy was Lee Bowden of Piri Ltd, Media C.A.T, and the Text Works. Media C.A.T? yep the very same ones who have now hired ACS:LAW to track down copyright infringers! ** Original Article posted by Jasper1965 on CAG February 2010

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Wednesday, 5 May 2010

One year on and ACS:LAW still Threaten

Today is the First year anniversary of ACS:LAW sending out their "Speculative Invoices" of course when I say "they" I really mean Andrew J Crossley.  Let us not make ACS:LAW sound more grand than what it really is.  A one man band.

So with all the "Forensic" Evidence and "Airtight" cases, WHERE are the chances to stand in court then Andrew?  One Year? No Court cases?  shame on you!

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Monday, 5 April 2010

ACS:LAWs Terence Tsang the "Del Boy" of file sharing buys job lot of monitoring programs "Off the back of a lorry" to help out his Bosses Mate!

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With news breaking that the Paralegal Terence Tsang has bought code from a freelancer with a view to:  

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 “Create a bit-torrent client for me which will obtain details about file sharers of certain torrents. Server is Linux. The torrent client just needs to monitor IP addresses and take information which is then placed in a database,” writes Tsang in his request.  

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“The information needed is as follows: Host IP, Hit Date and time (GMT time), Provider network name (i believe whois search will help with this – can you think of a better way?), P2P Client, File name, File size, MD5 of file,”  

And also:  

 “So we need to get the software to monitor a number of specific torrents it needs to create a database of the above information. The database needs to be able to import into a database file like csv. I am only interested in UK IP addresses. Easy job if you have the skills,”   

It seems only right in light of ACS LAWs failure to release details regarding their “Monitoring system”, and the fact that ACS LAW Sole Partner Andrew Crossleys buddy and work associate Lee Bowden has entered the fray as a client of ACS LAW to do what they do best and SPECULATE, so here goes.  

Lee Bowden owns MEDIA C.A.T and The Text Works and is a Partner with Jay Puddy of Pirri LTD.  Although there is NO suggestion that Pirri LTD is involved with this but MEDIA C.A.T most certainly is and so is Bowden.  

Indeed at the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on November 19th 2009 When Chief Master Winegarten asked why rights holders were dealing with Media C.A.T and not directly with DigiProtect, Crossley said that  

“[Media C.A.T] happen to operate in the UK…dealing with UK companies…” In referring to the scheme ACS:Law and DigiProtect operate in respect of these hardcore porn titles, Crossley tried to suggest that they were doing a public service by helping to prevent the sharing of restricted movies on P2P.  

Chief Master Winegarten responded by noting that  

“[this is] not a moral crusade” and that in his opinion, ACS:Law and DigiProtect were doing this “…because you want the money.”  

So what are we to make of this? Well it PROVES that Terence Tsang bought code for the very purpose of bringing file sharing suspects to court.  

The work dates back to April 2008, I do NOT know when he left Davenport Lyons but this time scale would at least indicate the timing of a realistic business practice.  Indeed  their WAS a abortive website that attempted this that was registered back in January 2009, it name was http://www.stoppiracy.co.uk/ and a quick WHOIS search reveals that the Registrant is…… Terence Tsang of Advanmedia/AdvanGroup and also of ACS:LAW.    

We KNOW that Lee Bowden and Andrew Crossley are friends or at the least associates.  Bowdens Company Media C.A.T is in trouble with it’s finances and needs cash, how? Well a quick search of Companies House Website SHOWS that Media C.A.T is in trouble.  

1)  If Terence Tsang had inside knowledge into the methods used by Logistep and Digiprotect which having worked for DL we assume he would have.  Have we just uncovered the specification of the “Monitoring Software”? , if so then this confirms what we have suspected all along, that this “Monitoring Software” is not fit for purpose. This may also explain the complete reluctance by ACS:Law to provide the “Evidence” and “Expert Reports” to those that have requested them.  

2)   Is this commissioned application the very same monitoring software now being used by Media C.A.T ? , and if it is then is this not a serious conflict of interest? not only does it raise serious concerns about the quality and processes used by the “Monitoring Software” it’s also possible that the solicitors concerned:  

a.      Commissioned the program  

b.      Operate the Program  

c.      Gather the Evidence  

d.      Produce the letters of Claim  

e.      Receive Money from the “Damages” claimed  

This may be something that the SRA may wish to investigate further and if the suspicions are proved to be true they should be held to account for their actions.  

So What is the Truth? Is Andrew Crossley merely helping out a friend in need(Lee Bowden) or is Terence Tsang trying to break away from ACS LAW?  How Did Tilly Bailey & Irvine get involved? ….we cant know for sure but certainly their needs to be an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority at the VERY least into the actions of these three people.  It seems at the VERY least that all roads lead to Terence Tsang and Advanmedia/AdvanGroup

Credit: Thx Flaw!

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Monday, 22 March 2010

Open letter to Andrew Crossley Re: Threat to Slyck Forums

This is an open letter to Andrew J Crossley. I have noticed a post where you have threatened the Slyck Forums for defamation. I find this most strange but will try to shed some light upon it considering you have brought up my name in relation to the alleged defamation.

 I am no Solicitor, merely a concerned net user accused in your dragnet of sharing a “Work”. I deny it and still await the evidence you hold on me, it has now been nearly a year.

You say I called your Paralegal Terence Tsang, a “W%$£$%” and also that I have implied that he has been “harassing” people online. First let us be clear, either Terence DOES work for you or he doesn’t, of course I know he does and also because of his desire to inflate his own ego to your detriment (more of that to follow), I know he also DID work for “Davenport Lyons”

You made it quite clear when interviewed that you had NO link with “Davenport Lyons” I know that to be “economical with the actualite” you see you were SEEN with Davenport Lyons Solicitors at a Court Hearing, Terence told a friend of mine that he WORKED for the, so their WAS and IS a link.

The question of evidence has been longstanding to be almost humorous, indeed if you were not representing some VERY vilely titled Films for your “Clients” I would be truly on the floor laughing. A single line from a an MS spreadsheet that says NOTHING is hardly evidence is it Mr Crossley? “Army F$£$%£s” is really not the sort of film you should be representing is it? I mean would you like your name associated with it? Oh don’t answer it already is along with many many more I could not actually reproduce here. What DO you call a person who acts for the Sex Industry and represents “Clients” anyway? Pimp?

 I know that you infringed copyright on your original Website, not only with pictures but also articles, I know you were compelled to take them down by rights holders in some cases. That is not good is it? Someone setting themselves up to defend peoples rights by err…. Taking them without permission. http://tinyurl.com/lzygvt

Remember the Word Documents that you hosted on your original website? You can learn a lot from Word Documents, that is how we first knew of Terence Tsang “TTsang” was rather obvious, as was “Davenport lyons” on the “Created by” Field. You did deny any link with Davenport lyons of course as I mentioned earlier, but come on really? Admit it, you will look less foolish and more honest. Remember Tracy Prevett? The “tprevett” who wrote your FAQ? Work for ACS LAW or Davenport Lyons? Don’t answer http://tinyurl.com/ye3mx77

The accusation that Terence has been harassing people? Hmmm well what would YOU call it, Terence has been known to stalk the chatroom at Beingthreatened, and also on twitter sending Direct Messages, and also emails, but you MUST have know about all that surely? I mean he is not a loose cannon is he? Is he?http://tinyurl.com/yz7rj5u

 I was amazed at how many websites Terence had set up http://www.batchfords.co.uk, http://www.ADVANGROUP.COM, http://www.autoadvan.co.uk/, http://www/quicksalefast.co.uk, http://www.japaneseauctions.co.uk, http://www.stoppiracy.co.uk, http://www.acs-law.org.uk/ http://www.ukcompromiseagreements.co.uk/

To name but a few, and then of course there is the case of the two he was forced to hand over, what were they again? Oh of course,

http://www.moorganstanley.com and  http://olddnational.com

now I am quite sure these were attempts at making money at the expense of Morgan Stanley and Old National Bancorp, again you MUST have know about these right?

I wonder if you know that Terence was making deals on Twitter to send mail directly to him? Of course you did.

I am sorry to have said the “W%$£$%” word in regard to Terence as what I meant to say was “Who is this Shyster Terence Tsang” see, I am not sure what he does in the comfort of his own home, (apart from watching “Animal farm” and downloading “Championship Manager” but of course that is only what HE has said.) NO I cannot KNOW that he is a “W%$£$%” so I should not have said it, on balance of probability though, and lets face it at the Civil Court that is what it is, I would say it is most probable that he is a “Shyster”, of course as you knew NOTHING about what he was up to I could not possibly comment, but you know now what he has been up to.

As far as the comparison between yourself and Harold Shipman, I can only apologise if you thought I was actually comparing you to the Bad Doctor, anyone who actually read the comment though would have realized I was merely using a metaphor, I was saying that as the Music Industry had been criticized for being so heavy handed in dealing with alleged infringers, the fact that you had been slated BY the Music Industry struck me as an extremity, and the only thing I could think about was Harold Shipman calling a Doctor a “bit negligent”.

I hope you will come clean now Mr Crossley, it would be interesting for you to go on record and say why Ms Beale bailed out on you and went to Newmans. Ohh and BTW, looking at your Word Document, I see you have a Macintosh, very nice. Now show us the Evidence

BTW I also know that Media-Cat  is owned by your friend and colleague Lee Bowden who is also a Director of Piri LTD, Had a nice chat with the fellow Director who did not seem to happy with what Mr Bowden was doing.  Of course I also know that Media-Cat is in financial trouble http://tinyurl.com/ylpuszg I know he was also the Media Agent for Vice Acors, you remember him right? http://tinyurl.com/4hkq8a 

Those in glass houses Mr Crossley....

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Thursday, 11 March 2010

The Davenport "TWO": Their Solicitor speaks out

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The Solicitor representing Davenport Lyons EX Director Brian Miller and and current Director David Gore, has spoken out about his clients innocence.  Mark Stephens from the improbably named "Finers Stephens Innocent" said the following
Mark Stephens, a partner at Stephens Finers Innocent who is representing the two solicitors involved, rejected the consumer group’s allegations. He said Davenport Lyons has a long tradition of protecting the rights of creators, and its methodology for handling illegal file-sharing cases conforms to industry best practice, and has been adopted in the Digital Economy Bill currently going through parliament. Stephens said it was not correct to say the solicitors’ conduct was inappropriate in the manner alleged by Which?, adding that Davenport Lyons has a 100% success rate for the illegal file-sharing cases that it has taken to court. Stephens accepted that there was a ‘small concern’ regarding the information provided by the internet service provider, which Davenport Lyons had relied on. In a few cases, he said the ISP had wrongly identified the people involved. But once the error was discovered, the cases against them were not pursued. There were also a number of people who had left their computers in an insecure state and third parties had gained control over them. Again, said Stephens, these people were subsequently not pursued.

Here at "Received a letter from ACS:LAW?" we like to take the opportunity to share with you the results of this information when we fed it through our "Bull$hit Detector"

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It does not look good.  The FULL Statement can be found at http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/two-solicitors-accused-over-file-sharing-bully-tactics

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

FLASHBACK: Eyewitness to Davenport Lyons aiding ACS:LAW in Court hearing

This piece is from the Legendary Beingscammed. who was threatened by ACS:LAW for trying to help the Victims of their letters.  Originally posted on the 11th May 2009.  In light of the TWO Directors of Davenport Lyons being sent by the SRA to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, I though it good that this be posted so all new recipients could see the truth.  Thanks ACS:FLAW for pointing this out to me
Topware in Court


Well that was very interesting.I attended the court proceedings this morning between Topware and BE UN LTD, much to the angst of Andrew Crossley. Not sure if he even knew that courts are public and as such anyone may attend and observe (provided that you don't interrupt / interfere, and you ask the judge nicely).Now the link between Davenport Lyons and ACS: Law became oh so more clear. The link is about as close as possible without them being the same company. Even in the minutes preceding the hearing, a representative of DL was giving prepatory documents to Andrew Crossley for him to use at the hearing...

During the hearing the Master even had to ask if this was the same case that he saw previously with DL, and wasn't that them in the corridor?

Also in attendance was a Miss Camilla Balleny from  Arnold & Porter LLP - Camilla Balleny As far as I could tell, she was representing A&P who represent Virgin Media and BE UN Ltd.

The end result of the hearing today was that this hearing and two others (similar but with other ISPs) until Monday 8th June 11am, same place.

What was so interesting were the claims that Andrew Crossley made to Master Winergarten during the proceedings. That 1500+ letters had been sent out, and that a significant proportion of people pay the demand (35-40%). This is SO much higher than what we (collectively on the forums) had thought. Not sure if it's bull***t or bravado, but of course there wouldn't be any docs available to back that up. It was more that he was convincing Master Winergarten that they were doing the right thing, and having success, and that if they weren't guilty why would they pay etc.

That means that if some 500 people have paid up, each at around £600, that's £300k going into someone's pockets. Makes the whole thing worthwhile... almost... until you get stricken off as a lawyer for all this, and get made to pay the money back (perhaps).

I spoke to Camilla Balleny (think I freaked her out a little) after the hearing, and asked her if she knew how they got the IP addresses, and if she knew that the method that they got them was illegal or dubious at best, and had been thrown out of court in other European countries, and that a lawyer got struck off for 6 months for doing this.... Although I wasn't expecting any answers, her surprise, discomfort and silence spoke volumes. I even offered her to see the letter that ACS Law had sent me, though by this stage I think she just wanted to get the hell out of there.

Camilla - if you're reading this, the offer stays open, I'm sure plenty of us would be happy to send you format versions of our letters.

So, where from here? Well, I was going to go over to Hanover Square and visit Andrew Crossley, but after seeing him in the flesh, and having him validate in front of me all that we had previously suspected, I just didn't see the need.

He is taking this seriously, making a lot of money from it, and although seemed a little disorganised he was doing a fair job of convincing everyone else - who either didn't have the knowledge or information to know better.

The hearings were adjourned because the ISPs hadn't had time to verify all the facts (times, IPs etc) of the NEW batch of IPs to be churned through this ever growing fiasco. So thank you at least for that much, that the ISPs are checking that they're not giving out the wrong details this time.

I will continue with my stance of complete denial - although I'm not going to send any correspondence to ACS, as I would actually like for them to take me to court. I would LIKE to see all the EVIDENCE they have against me. I would LIKE to fight this, slam them down and stop all this bullying they are doing.

Stand strong people, and please use whatever means you have available to get the word out to the less informed people that they shouldn't pay (unless they really want to), to deny deny deny and let's see what happens when they try to take me to court.

Beingscammed, if you are still about, please email and say hi

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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

ACS LAW: Lord Lucas "How the game works" and "If the SRA wont do anything about them then WE will"







Lord Lucas and others in the House of Lords give some hope to the thousands of innocent people accused of wrongdoing by these scheming scamming Solicitors.  It is long but WELL WORTH LISTENING TO.  Check the part from 1:20, he really sums it up well

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Tilly Bailey & Irvine, ACS:LAW and Logistep: An Embarrassment to the Creative Rights Industry







Lord Clement Jones lays into these Scamsters Lawyers in VERY strong terms in the House of Lords

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Tilly Bailey & Irvine - Speculative Invoicing Letters - Follow ACS:LAW

Well it HAD to happen, another greedy Solicitor representing the Porn Industry has followed the lead of Davenport Lyons and ACS:LAW and issued letters blackmailing asking innocent people to cough up £800 for downloading some horrendous Pornography that no-one has ever heard of but with such a provoctive title that rather than talk to their family about it they feel compelled to pay these swindlers  Solicitors their hard earned cash.  DONT DO IT!

Here is an example of one of their letters, of course with the personal details left out!

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Saturday, 13 February 2010

ACS:LAW Changed the Registration of their Web Address SO? Well just like to keep a cache

Below are the TWO registered addresses for ACS LAW.  The First one appears to be a residential address of Terence Tsang.  The second is a Rented Office, rented from AVANTA http://www.avanta.co.uk/UK/offices/Hanover-Square-W1S-1JY

(I know that certain members of the movement against ACS LAW have conversed with Terence Tsang accusing me of invasion of his privacy and encouraging him to press charges for harrassment (You know who you are) , I feel however that this after discussing this with Legal Advisors that this  is PUBLIC DOMAIN Information and is covered under the FAIR USE Law). 

The OLD Address


Rupert Law Close

Domain name:
acs-law.org.uk

Registrant:
Terence Tsang

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
Rupert LAw
Quorn
Leics
LE12 8PE


GB

Registrar:
Total Web Solutions Ltd t/a Total Registrations [Tag = TOTALREG]
URL: http://www.totalregistrations.com

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 09-Apr-2009
Renewal date: 09-Apr-2011
Last updated: 14-Apr-2009

Registration status:
Registration request being processed.

Name servers:
ns1.dfsv61.com
ns2.dfsv61.com


The NEW Address



Domain name:
acs-law.org.uk

Registrant:
Terence Tsang

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
ACS Law Solicitors, 18 Hanover Square
London
Greater London
W1S 1HX
United Kingdom


Registrar:
Total Web Solutions Ltd t/a Total Registrations [Tag = TOTALREG]
URL: http://www.totalregistrations.com

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 09-Apr-2009
Renewal date: 09-Apr-2011
Last updated: 08-May-2009

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns1.dfsv61.com
ns2.dfsv61.com

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Friday, 5 February 2010

ACS LAW send out Phishing Questionnaires UPDATED

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Acs Law continue its War of attrition against the British Public and their latest round of "Speculative Invoices" seems to contain a rather Sinister Questionnaire.  Please take a look and let me know what you think. 

I believe myself they are terribly unprofessional forms, starting with either a "5" or a "15" in place of  "1".  It also seems that ACS LAW want to persue or at least ask wether the person would be willing to allow their PC to be inpected by forensic analysis.  Very Interesting

Of course what these forms REALY mean is that ACS LAW dont have enough information and believe you to be stupid enough to supply them the information with which to attack you again

Beingthreatened have produced an additional chapter to their EXCELLENT "Speculative Invoicing" Booklet please see here http://bit.ly/bonusquestio

Also had an EXCELLENT Spoof Questionnaire sent to me from ACS:FLAW Please see it here  Fishing Questionnaire

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Friday, 29 January 2010

ACS LAW in the MEDIA

Yes finally it seems those merry scamsters legitimate Solicitors are getting a lot of focus in the Mainstream Media.  No word yet from ACS LAW apart from the usual bullying threats of being taking to Court for Slander and other such allegations.  Terence Tsang we know you want to defend Andrew but come on.....

Anyway here is the list

Law firm's piracy hunt condemned


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8483482.stm

BPI rejects scareletter approach to possible pirates


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/scare_letter_file_sharing/

ACS:Law-type scams ‘big business’


http://www.p2pnet.net/story/34736

BPI slams law firm chasing illegal file-sharers


http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3211410

BPI Rejects Piracy Threat Letters and Slams Large Profit Making UK ISPs


 http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-scheme-a-scam-legal-blackmail-say-uk-lords-100128/

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Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Received a letter from ACS LAW? Dont panic

 

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="259" caption="Those lovely playful scamsters"]The alleged Scamsters[/caption]

 Here are a few links to get acquainted with those who accuse you of file sharing. This is a scam legitimate business model!!!!

Click here for help at the Beingthreatened website*

An Anti ACS Blog http://sites.google.com/site/acsillegalsite

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

http://twitter.com/ACS_LAW_ILLEGAL  (seems a great point to gather)

A Portal for LOTS of Links (Where this text was taken from) http://acslawscammers.bravehost.com/index.html

*I have NO connection with Beingthreatened and do NOT speak for them.  They ARE the first port of call for those receiving a letter from ACS LAW.  I have no connection with any of the other links, I merely wish to promote their popularity as a way of defeating ACS LAW and their practices against innocent people.

The setup

A group of Solicitors in cahoots with so called "Forensic" Experts using a frowned upon hack of Shareaza are targeting peoples IP addresses for illegal downloads. Now this so far seems quite reasonable right?  I mean it is only fair that people who create games and films should be able to gain money for their work and effort, I have no problem with such a principle.

ACS LAW took over from Davenport Lyons and started to send out their "letters" in early 2009, backed by Digiprotect, Digirights, and Logistep, and at the time of writing, employing Andrew Crossley, Terence Tsang (Ex Davenport Lyons) and one of their Chums Lee Bowden from Piri Ltd they seek to send out over 15,000 threatening demands for cash in the New Year.  

The Modus Operandi

 This has happened all over Europe, for this website I will focus on the UK ops.  Davenport Lyons a well respected Solicitors at the time sullied their name with this tawdry affair.  The Problem?  Well an IP does NOT identify an individual, sure it is allocated to an individual in some ways but it is not foolproof by any means.

Received a letter from Terence Tsang Andrew Crossley and Lee Bowden of Piri, LTD Accusing people of infringing copyright by sharing files via file sharing p2p.

The so called "Top Companies" on their roster of Clients include Reality Pump, Techland, Topware, and Zuxxez  using "Forensic evidence" from Digiprotect. and Logistep

 

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Friday, 27 November 2009

New Website setup AcsIllegal