PN’s lack of reply is just highlighting their disregard for it’s customers. This isn’t a big enough problem for them, we are just flea’s biting at their ankles.
PN’s Dave Tomlinson had plenty to say on this subject back in
November 2007 http://community.plus.net/blog/2007/11/28/file-sharing-letters/He states
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| We have no way of knowing whether customers knowingly downloaded the files themselves, whether another member of their household/workplace downloaded it or whether it was done via an insecure network |
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| While I’m not trying to defend copyright theft neither am I in total agreement with the action taken |
Your subscribers have no way of identifying an infringer either, but don’t you worry about it…just keep dishing out those names and addresses to Solicitors so that they can make a quick buck out of us.
This has been going on for years and still PN are not doing anything. While PN dawdle more and more of their customers are threatened.
It’s NOT anti-piracy. It’s a revenue generating business.
Here’s the format in simple terms for you Plusnet:
Copyright owner hands over the right to distribute his work to an IP Harvesting company.
The IP Harvesting company farms your subscribers IP’s
A court order is applied for and is used to force you to dish out the corresponding names and addresses for the IP’s.
They use a Solicitor who then sends a letter to the subscriber demanding that they pay up or risk being taken to court.
They leave the copyright works on the Torrent site so that more IP’s can be harvested at a later date.
Your frightened subscriber pays up (even if they are innocent).
The bulk of this money goes to the solicitor (hence why he likes this process so much)
Then a large percentage goes to the IP Harvesting Company. (very nice thank you)
Then…a small amount for the copyright owner (they are pleased that their ‘flopped record’ is at least making some money for them).
It’s a process condemned by many organizations and banned in other countries.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2010/01/29/bpi-condemns-copyright-cash-demands-40012773/The only thing stopping this getting totally out of hand is the many solicitors that have refused to take up this process because they know full well that it is an abuse of the legal process.
So Plusnet,
Why are you not appealing against the Norwich Pharmacal Orders?
Why are you not challenging the evidence presented? Don’t look at us…we can’t challenge it until we are taken to court (which wont happen as the threat is just a scare tactic).
Why are you not simply refusing to co-operate? Talk Talk don’t…what repercussions did they get? None…in fact they got great publicity and an increase in customers.
Can we have a statement from PN please to confirm that you have or have not received the data from ACS Law and that you are or are not going to refuse to contest future court orders? And can you please do it very soon.
