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ACS:Law sent out shedloads of emails to often innocent Internet subscribers demanding large amounts of money. The outfit threatened to expose the porn surfing history of the alleged 'filesharers' to the public in court if they didn't pay up.
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Yes i completely agree with you on that, if they are just sending out random threats with no probable cause that law firm should not exist anymore.
Although if i recieved a threat such as this i would just tell them to fuck off or get a lawyer to counter-sue because it seems like a very easy case of extortion/blackmail. First i would probably tell them to go ahead and tell the world i look at porn, and the world will respond 'Big deal, i do too.' The stigma of porn is fading fast, its being embraced by the mainstream so using that angle to scare people is pretty weak imo.
My argument is that if there is probably cause behind an ip address, some kind of reasonable suspicion they should absolutely go after the suspect within the boundaries of the law.
Footnote: yep Alanis is indeed a douche for that one
on edit: i remember the day i saw that "Irony" video and i thought "No, this can't be the same singer with those other good tunes, it's impossible she does not know the meaning of the word." But alas Alanis....