Hey all on Thursday the 14th January my house-mate was shocked when she opened a letter from ACS:Law regarding copyright infringement acting on behalf of a company called DigiProtect along with a letter from the high court of justice and asking for a cost of £500 which would be a out of court settlement if refused to pay they would take us to court and it would cost up to £7000. That was the 1st initial shock for us the second was in the nature in what we were accused of downloading which was pornographic film which caused a very big argument and upset with my self and my house mate being as they are in there late 40's and I'm only 22 and the main internet user in the house so as you may guess the blame had landed on me at 1st. In the letter it is said that we had used a peer to peer site called Bittorrent to obtain this film the letter also gave a supposed host IP address and a IP address along with a previous internet provider we were using which was BT but in november 08 i took over paying for the internet and phone line and move it to virgin media. The date and time when the download was made supposedly made which was back in 21/06/08 since we had this letter it has made things very stressful and has caused a loss of sleep for the 1st 2 nights after the letter was received. I have been in contact with are former internet provider which as i mentioned before was BT which were no help the only information they provided me with was a address to wright to only they would be able to help and provide some information and that in the letter i should give the times and date mentioned in the letter from ACS:Law and the host IP number and IP number that was supposedly use when the incident happened. After contacting may different law advise company's and government help call centres who seemed like they didn't want to touch the situation but have herd of ACS:LAW before. I have also spoken to solicitors who deal in copyright law they have asked for a copy of both of the letters to be sent to them so that they could look it over and give me advise but after that they will have to charge me with a fee of £250 per hour. I have contacted ACS:Law direct the person i spoke to was very rude and cocky on the matter in hand and when i asked for them to provide more evidence that would prove us to be the offender the person said that i didn't need any other evidence to be shown that we had made this offense other than what was presented in the letter if i wasn't happy i could take it to a court. I contacted Solicitors Regulation Authority who have said they are building a case up on ACS but couldn't help me individually. I have been advised to possibly contact the BBC or a local news paper or radio to see if they would bring this matter into light i don't know where to turn to its becoming very stressful and the amount of hours i have spent reading different thread's in forums and news articles etc which go back 3 years ago but they don't really give much info in what to do apart from 2 or 3 sites that help and give advise. Sorry if this rant has gone on a bit but i needed to vent some of my frustration and to see if there is anyone who has been unfortunate to have been contacted by this law firm and what they have done about this???.
