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• Internet 19 Apr 13:42

  ACS:Law brought "legal profession into disrepute"

  Remember ACS:Law? It was the outfit which worked in the shadows of a moral grey-area, demanded preemptive settlements on filesharers who... may or may not have been sharing any files. It had received criticism for bully-boy tactics and intimidation.
• Internet 14 Feb 10:52

  FAST moves to prosecute illegal filesharers

  However, last month ACS:Law chickened out - or as we like to think, saw the light- , ACS:Law  told the court that it would no longer be representing MediaCAT in pursuing the copyright infringement cases. This basically means it wanted to withdraw all the cases.
• Internet 02 Feb 13:58

  ICO drops BT's customer detail leak case

  The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has dropped its ACS:Law investigation on BT.
• Security 25 Jan 15:07

  Pirates call for ACS:Law to walk the plank

  The UK Pirate Party has called for ACS:Law to be investigated over the methods it used to gather evidence into alleged file sharing.
• Internet 16 Dec 15:57

  Movie industry forces BT's hand on Usenet

  BT is not saying much at the moment. The outfit has been very reluctant to hand over much to the content industry after it was embarrassed when  its customers' IP addresses were given to the law firm ACS:Law.
• Business 14 Oct 11:30

  Terence Tsang, figure behind ACS: Law letters, leaves Cramer Pelmont

  Brassley tells us the reason it has ditched working on the Digital Economy Act is because it is self defeating - file sharers are downloading content because they like it, he says, so to prosecute a potential investor is like shooting yourself in the foot.
• Internet 06 Oct 10:35

  New Legal Ombudsman receives first complaints - about Gallant Macmillan

  As the new Legal Ombudsman opened the gates today at 8:30AM, one of the very first complaints was against Gallant Macmillan, the London law firm capitalising on ACS:Law's dubious legacy.
• Business 05 Oct 11:08

  BT wins adjournment in anti-piracy hearing

  The hearing followed BT admitting last month that it sent customers’ personal details in unencrypted emails to law firm ACS:Law. This information was then leaked on the web after the ACS:Law website was hacked.
• Business 04 Oct 12:10

  Anti-piracy lawyers pirate each other’s work

  ACS:Law boss Andrew Crossly claims that the firm contacted him for help, which he provided, by giving them some outlines to act as guide. However Tilly, Bailey and Irvine  just used them without changing a word.
• Security 04 Oct 11:14

  Gallant Macmillan taken offline as High Court hearing beckons

  The company's site remained down today after it was believed to have been targeted by Operation Payback over the weekend. The action followed the law firm saying last week that the controversy surrounding ACS:Law would not stop it going ahead with its anti-piracy cases, including Simon Gallant telli
• Business 30 Sep 17:43

  London law firm pledges to continue targeting file-sharers

  A firm of London solicitors has said the controversy surrounding ACS:Law will not stop it from targeting those accused of file-sharing.
• Internet 30 Sep 14:12

  Anonymous won't stop DDoS attacks until it calms down

  Last week ACS:Law, the notorious law firm that seeks to turn alleged infringements of copyright into a cash cow was attacked. ACS:Law then bungled an attempt to bring its site back online and published its own email database to the public.
• Internet 29 Sep 11:29

  BT confirms it sent customer info to ACS:Law - unencrypted

  BT has confirmed it sent customer details in unencrypted Excel spreadsheets as email attachments to the legal firm ACS:Law.
• Security 29 Sep 09:44

  Sky falls on ACS:Law

  The 'anti-piracy' legal firm ACS:Law, which makes a fortune threatening to blackmail people for downloading porn, has been cut off by its ISP.
• Internet 28 Sep 12:47

  Operation Payback DDoS attack moves Down Under

  It is thought the payback attacks are being generated by 4chan. It allegedly did some damage in the UK too. Last week ACS:Law, the notorious law firm that seeks to turn alleged infringements of copyright into a cash cow was attacked.
• Security 05 Apr 16:09

  Fileshare hunting technology is hardly sophisticated

  In Blighty one of the key outfits involved in this suing work is Terence Tsang who now works for ACS:Law. Tsang, previously worked on similar file-sharing cases with lawyers Davenport Lyons.
• Business 22 Mar 16:32

  English law firm threatens Americans

  LawACS:Law,  which represents some leading clients in the entertainment industry,  has been sending out lots of letters to people it claims are file sharing its clients' content. It is suggesting that they settle out of court before things get out of hand.

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