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Originally Posted by Melidon
Good morning, I am new to the forum. I have received one of these letters from Davenport Lyons just a couple of days ago. It came as a bit of a shock.
I am being accused of downloading a car driving game in August of last year, not something a 64 year old lady would be interested in at all. I am going to my local CAB for help and advice. I'm sure though that I have never downloaded this game, and am wondering why I should pay this firm £565.00 and sign a disclosure to say I won't do it again when I didn't do it in the first place. I have found the letters on this forum very interesting. Of the people who have received the letters, how many have paid and why do the payments vary so much. Also why so long in contacting people, 6 months to
contact VM and then 2 months to lodge with court and then a further 6 months before sending out the letter to me. I have to say I am so worried about this, and what happens if I am told I have to pay and don't have the money to do so.
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Can you honestly say that you had no-one else use your internet connection?? For example a niece/nephew/grandchildren staying with you for the weekend?? I only ask as that'll be the first question the courts or Davenport-lyons would ask you do disprove
Can you also honestly say that you do not have any P2P software installed.... One point that people don;t realise is that you might actually download software called one thing that is actually something else.. As you download it it shares that software out...It's only when it's fully down or you actually bother to look at the Hash for it you realises that you've done it...
The letters have probably taken so long as it would have been on a schedule that started off with monitoring the P2P network for a few months gathering data... Then they would had to ask a court to grant them rights to the account details of all those recorded...This then would have taken time for the ISP's to respond