Condolence Letter From Church

apparently for a couple of days is going through the network a 350MB file containing a lot of e-mail server of the British company ACS: Law. Some of these emails would be revealing the dirty practices (to put it mildly) they employ. In

TorrentFreak: ACS: Anti-Piracy Law Law Firm Torn Apart By Leaked Emails


a bit short:

ACS: Law is a British firm of lawyers committed to sending thousands of threatening letters and extortion allegedly people had shared copyrighted files on BitTorrent. To locate these people, seeking court orders that force ISPs to disclose the identity of the IPs that they believe have violated the law.

is a known fact that this form of "identify" people on P2P networks is harmful and leads to a lot of mistakes. Moreover, the intention of the threat is clear: fear Meter people to pay and thus avoid a lawsuit, regardless of whether the end that application were to be admitted or not , and if of admission would result in a sentence conviction or acquittal.

In this thread, with nearly 400 pages in this moment, those affected discuss threats ACS: Law and another firm called Davenport Lyons: The official ACS: LAW / Davenport-Lyons lawsuit discussion (go to last page .)

These are those companies whose customers producing and copyright associations that have their own team of lawyers threats. His bad reputation reached the ears of Anonymous and who recently came under attack DDoS similar to the MPAA, RIAA, BPI, etc.. in a call under the name of "Operation: Payback".

The owner of ACS: Law, Andrew Crossley , mocked the issue saying they were "typical of pirate nonsense" and that much more worried "that his train was delayed 10 minutes or having to wait in a queue to order a coffee. " "Great !...", thing added wryly. Obviously that Crossley did not know who (or rather, what) is anonymous.

The server was again attacked, and after recovering, rather than the home page showed a default directory listing web site, which was empty except for a file that accidentally contained a backup of the entire site, including e-mails and passwords. TorrentFreak That's according to what someone has told the attacking group.

The e-mails have been filtered through various sites including TPB, as a compressed file .

The theme continues. Some e-mails here are commenting on and beyond , is that the file and must have been around the world several times. The event is already up on wikipedia .