Help neede legal advice

[phoenix]

oops had a rant.But at wrong person.

 

[sparkie]

Replied to Grant Macmillan with my LOD and unbelievably they have replied that they will not recognise this as it's a template, through the link in this thread although I did alter it slightly to meet my needs. There is a lot of good advise on the link below

ACS:Law copyright file sharing claims, Gallant Macmillan - and probably some others along the way...

Oh how tedious. At least they have acknowledged receipt of your letter. Nothing more to do now.

 

[Lush]

oops had a rant.But at wrong person.

Thought it was a bit harsh as he'd only posted twice!

 

[NMH]

Honestly, I would not even get into dialogue with them. They are just looking for people to pay up, nothing will happen if you do not respond

A response is evidence.
I wouldn't, if I were you.

 

[Brighton TID]

Changing tack slightly (and at the risk of sounding like a complete codger), would you ever consider going into a Virgin Megastore and stealing this CD off the shelves?

What's the difference?

 

[Easy 10]

No bus fare, for starters.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Changing tack slightly (and at the risk of sounding like a complete codger), would you ever consider going into a Virgin Megastore and stealing this CD off the shelves?

What's the difference?

A pedant writes "You'll have trouble, Virgin Megastores have been closed for years"

 

[lucky007]

Got a little bit of knowledge on this, you cant actually get busted for downloading material but its the 'sharing' side ie. other people uploading from you. So my advice to anyone downloading stuff is to make sure uploading is restricted.

Oh and downloading is much easier than stealing from shelves plus you don't get stuck with a CD that you have to convert for your ipod anyway

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Got a little bit of knowledge on this, you cant actually get busted for downloading material but its the 'sharing' side ie. other people uploading from you. So my advice to anyone downloading stuff is to make sure uploading is restricted.

Oh and downloading is much easier than stealing from shelves plus you don't get stuck with a CD that you have to convert for your ipod anyway

Afraid that's wrong. You're committing a civil offence by knowlingly downloading someone elses intellectual property. If you do it as a course of a business e.g. sell dodgy dvd's then its a criminal offence

 

[Springal]

Afraid that's wrong. You're committing a civil offence by knowlingly downloading someone elses intellectual property. If you do it as a course of a business e.g. sell dodgy dvd's then its a criminal offence

Legally, you are correct, but they do infact only go after people that are sharing these files rather than downloading

 

[lucky007]

I had a letter from my IP last year about me downloading stuff, this was followed by a letter from Symantec as I was 'accidentally' sharing there AV software. Both letters said to stop sharing, I got some very informal legal advice and was told off the record stop the sharing side and you will be ok. Ever since then its been download city!!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Legally, you are correct, but they do infact only go after people that are sharing these files rather than downloading

But doesn't this thread prove otherwise? Also my brother in law has recieved the same sort of thing after downloading an album.

 

[Springal]

But doesn't this thread prove otherwise? Also my brother in law has recieved the same sort of thing after downloading an album.

On what medium? And 100% not sharing it? As someone who has worked with a number of ISP abuse desks, we only *ever* get requests about sharing, rather than downloading

 

[lucky007]

what most people dont realise is that most download software is set up to share the file whilst its still being downloaded.

 

[Brighton TID]

A pedant writes "You'll have trouble, Virgin Megastores have been closed for years"

Oh come off it. Next you'll be telling me that woollies no longer exists due to the rape of the digital age