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Originally Posted by Toto
Well, not sure about the Courts challenging the evidence, but here is a news report to show that the BPI, in this country, has been rather successful in its data collection methods .  |
Perhaps I should have phrased my earlier comment slightly differently: I don't believe the "evidence" produced in any BPI case has been seriously contested in the UK yet.
As the news item (regarding the shutdown of the MVGroup torrent tracker and website) to which I linked earlier showed, the copyright lobby are notorious for producing error-ridden and unverifiable allegations backed up with threats by their expensive legal friends in the hope that "pirates", web hosts and ISPs will do their bidding without question.
I can't wait for a savvy, internet-literate lawyer to test them in the UK courts!
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ISP's rightly do not want to collect this data, why the hell should they. If rights owners cock it up, it should fall on their heads.
You have to wonder though, if such fines work through the courts, why all this three strike palava.
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Purely because it's designed to avoid the courts, admissible evidence and a right of appeal?
And if the BPI can make the ISP the patsy in it's protection racket, then all the better for them.
Of course, it's always been open to the BPI to forward the news of any successful court case to the defendant's ISP with the request that they terminate the account.
BTW, how much of your "few quid" for some aspiring artists' CD do you imagine they'll receive?