Sadly this is an industry that's becoming much like debt collection agencies.
Haven't had anything on file sharing but I did have a take-down notice on You Tube of some (shaky cam amateur) concert footage I shot at an open air concert on public land. I know the UK copyright law in respect to this and the fact is the copyright to the footage is mine regardless. The only enforcement opportunity the gig management had was to prevent cameras being entered into the area, but once a shot is taken (even on private property), the copyright is still with the person shooting it (trademark infringement is another matter, but there wasn't any and a live concert in public is not copyrightable). Anyway, Warner waded in and told You Tube it was copyright infringement. You Tube didn't stand up for me or give me a chance to defend myself, they just took the footage down and blacklisted my account all because Warner told them to do so. They did say I could subsequently appeal but risked having my account deleted if I did!
So it's no surprise that the music and movie industry gets companies to just trawl around, harvest what they think might be infringement and then regardless of whether it is or not, they move it onto a so called "law" company to do the heavy handed work.
They still don't get it though. Regardless of the legal or illegal activities going on in regards to file sharing, they still haven't worked out that the game has changed. The likes of Spotify have, and (for example) have presented a very good legal way of consuming music without going down the traditional CD route (which is actually still doing very good business), that to me does away with any need for "file sharing", at least for music.
Anyway, just my 2p.
