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Originally Posted by slash181
well okay obviously im going to be open to opinions and what others are saying as i am trying to sort this out for myself and everyone.
BUT.....it is a scam, if you where illegally sharing you would get a warning from your isp! not anyone else as its on their service your doing this. even virgin have said themselves do not pay!
heres a few links of other forums that i have studied, and i advise you also to study as tbh i think everyone has no idea (including myself) what is happening, im just going by what my isp has told me.
http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk...formation.html
http://torrentfreak.com/this-is-how-...u-downloading/
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12361
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopi...8764241f43ed34
i would like just to say one thing, please dont try to be negative on this situation i am just like you and the next person around,trying to sort this out.
we need to start standing up to this and show em, i have freinds in germany saying that it happened over there for a few years and if you ignored the third letter nothing happens......not sure if its the same here.
if you have any advise, contacts, or you wanna just help not come out with sarcy comments cause it does not help im here to be helped and to help you guys too.
********this is not aimed at any post current just wanted to say before some guy finds this and just doesnt take it serious, as it is lol but thank you for everyones advise.....good luck in court  and all the rest BUT LETS GET 'EM********* |
Two things.
Virgin Media have never said do not pay, they, and other ISP's have been served with court order forcing them to give up customer data.
Secondly, and I emphasize this clearly, it is not a scam, because if it were there wouldn't have been such large fines dished out to people
by the courts, and I am not just talking about Davenport Lyons.
You want advice?.....go talk to a solicitor, we are up against the big boys now. Rights holders are bypassing the ISP's user policies because they have come out and said that they don't police the Internet, if you don't believe me go ask the head of Carphone Warehouse. Whilst the £16,000 fine against one file sharer was not a precedent (thanks forevarwar), it is certainly an eye opener, especially as the game company got a whacking share of that against the value and quality of the title shared.
There are a couple of posters here with some consumer advice experience, popper comes to mind, and having scanned through those articles, all of which I have read before at some time or another there is the possibility that some facts from those articles may help some "victims".
The truth though is simple, file sharers beware, you're going to be out of pocket.