Hi Moore, Just read what mac said, plus you should be able to find out what you IP address was at the time from your ISP be it Sky, BT etc. When you ring your ISP you could be on the phone some time and they may have an expensive 0870 number, or and 0845 which is not included in mobile price plan free minutes. So google "say no to 0870" and you should be able to find a free phone number or local number for your ISP, might save you a few £ on the phone call

Good point about them committing the same crime I'm aware of bit torrent clients showing the IP address of people you are downloading from or uploading too but if previous post are right and the address are obtained from a company in Switzerland then how can they guarantee these are accurate? Are they willing to reveal how they obtained these IP address? are they willing to disclose there methods for examination or will they act like the Swiss banks? I’m not saying this company is anything but genuine as I know nothing about them, but unless ACS can open up there collection methods to cross examination how can they be relied upon in court? Surely they’re can’t just accept the work of a third party company from another country, epically as there is no regulatory body or code of conduct governing how these companies collecting the address must operate. I mean I could create a random list of IP address and pass them on or 'sell' them to a law company claiming that they had 'infringed upon copyright laws'. Obviously not all the random IP address will be real IP address but there are plenty of IP databases out there (the kind amazon and ebay use to automatically direct you to your countries version of there site) that could be used to filter this list so that it only contained IP address from the UK, then remove private address such as 10.X.X.X and 192.168.X.X, then only include address that fall within given ISP ranges, these databases are not 100% accurate from my experience of them but a few simple filters and you will end up with a list of address that most of which are likely to be used by the general public for home Internet use, the type of users that these letters target. “ACS:Law estimates that for every 1,000 IP addresses it requests court orders for it will get around 400 actual addresses.” BBC Site BBC News - O2 condemns lawyers targeting alleged file-sharers. Whats the deal with the other 600 addresses and why did they not get details for them? Maybe they don’t exist, are not registered to home owners, registered to government/cooperate addresses etc, the ISP refused etc. But from a list of 1000 i’d expect them to get more than 400.

Hi mackaz, I agree can't blame the ISP's for responding to a court order (I'm assuming there was a court order issued as i'm no legal expert.) but i'd be interested to know how they got the list IP Address's in question, I've not read the full thread but at a glance I've only noticed people saying they've contacted sky but haven't noticed anyone contact any other ISP's, which is what makes me question the source of the information, if its from a company in Switzerland are they only able to target certain ISP users for some reason?

Hi loki23, Somebody has just shown me there letter and I too noticed the scribble over the stamp which also appear to be the number 3 and quality of the print it poor and pixilated, like a 2nd or 3rd generation scan or photocopy. If it was printed from the original document I very much doubt you'd get that kind of pixaliation round the lettering. This letter is between: (1) ALLAN KOPIE (2) MANUEL REUTER (3) YANN PEIFER -and- (1) BE UN LIMITED (2) BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED (3) BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (4) EASYNET LIMITED (5) PLUSNET PLC (6) TELEFONICA O2 UK LIMITED Its dated 17 Feb 2010 I/A No. 2 of 2010 - Front Page I/A No.[] of 2010 - Back page Does anyone have a differnt list of ISP's or do we all have the same? Judging by the fact the letter looks like a photocopy I suppect we all have the same list. But I'll find it strange if nobody has VIRGIN Media or Cable and Wireless listed. Back Page - on this letter its off center and the I.A No. (as above) is different to the front page, does anyone know what this I/A No. means? Could just be and ACS internal thing but I'd think it should be conistant though the document unless they piece together different documents for this letter which would explain the photocopy appearance.