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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. -
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. -
ICO drops BT's customer detail leak case
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has dropped its ACS:Law investigation on BT. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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