Originally Posted by DamianJ

Well that how the scam works. They took 02 to court to get the addresses of some people that pay for an internet connection. 02 didn't even try and appeal, so they got a default judgement which meant the ISP had to give them the addresses.

They don't have enough evidence to go to prove the person paying the bill infringed on any copyright. They can only guess. Also, if the person they write to didn't infringe and didn't give permission for anyone else to infringe, they aren't liable and they can't do anything to get the money out of them.

So, they need to get more people to say they are acting on their behalf, in order to widen the extortion net before the scam gets closed down.

In the UK, Davenport Lyons tried this first, result = lawyers were struck off. Then ACS:Law tried it. Result: bankruptcy and the lawyer struck off.

Hopefully it won't take long for this scam to reach the public eye again and for the whole house of cards to collapse.