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Anti-Piracy Lawyers Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct

Friday, June 10th, 2011

A pair of lawyers who were responsible for the introduction of so-called Speculative Invoicing into the UK, have both been found guilty of professional misconduct by a tribunal. Among other charges, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found that the pair from law firm Davenport Lyons knowingly targeted innocent people. They now face a range of sanctions from monetary penalties through to being disbarred.

Source: Anti-Piracy Lawyers Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct

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Code To Track BitTorrent Users Bought For $750 (Max)

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

As the practice of hunting down alleged file-sharers and then issuing legal threats in order to force money out of them gathers pace, questions are continually raised over the quality of the technical systems used to gather the evidence. According to information on a rent-a-coder site, such a system was bought in 2008 for between $250 and $750.

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Anti-Piracy Lawyers “An Embarrassment To Creative Rights Industry”

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

After mountains of controversy built up in the wake of the ‘pay up or else’ letters sent to thousands of alleged file-sharers, one would think other lawyers might be put off following the same track, but not so. Tilly Bailey & Irvine are the new kids on the block and have just been labeled by a Lord as an “embarrassment to the rest of the creative rights industry.”

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