ACS:Law copyright file sharing claims, Gallant Macmillan - and probably some others along the way...

[sweetly]

Same here, same letter with £375 charge and same thing with the mrs comment, lol

[mattpaint]

i posted here originally in april as i was sent a letter for a porn film asking ( demanding) over a grand......i sent my letter of denial...and havent heard anything since.

 

Now this morning i get the same template letter from them but for a certain pop song stating it was downloaded at an earlier date than my 1st alledged infringement...anyone else had 2 unrelated claims??

[floppydog]

To help address the issue,Ministry Of Sound instructed a software company ( no idea who it is as it is not stated ) to identify occassions when it's music is made available for download on peer to peer ('P2P') networks without its concent.

 

The letter then states the IP Address Date & Time Name of P2P network.

 

It looks like its a cut down version of ACS letter. It also has the Settlement Agreement ( A Legal Contract ) asking you to sign it saying you will not download any songs from the ministry of sound and pay the sum of £ ( amount asked). You will be able to keep the alleged downloaded album for private use.

 

I am guessing a cloned or clonish ACS approach. However it is interesting to note that they do not tell you who the software company are who are monitoring for their works

[captain-123]

@mattpaint, was your film mediacat or something different?

 

Did they give any reason for the amount being double the norm?

[joe1979]

what do you guys recommend ref the gallant macmillian situation, saying its a few of us with the exact same letters lol, i actually have a wifi router could have been anyone downloaded it right?

[ben_zod]

We too have recieved this letter today but were quite relieved after reading this site:

 

Being Threatened?

 

I would advise all affected to use this site and respond to these scaremonger a$$holes appropriately

 

One of my colleagues has suggested sending £400 in monoply money and tell them to keep the change!

[Jennifer2423]

Just got one today with same info as everyone else, Oct 2009, same song. I yelled at kids blaming them all and now it sems it is a fake; how can they get away with this?

 

I would be grateful if someone could help me with wording for LOD.

 

Many thanks.

[davvruss]

i have the same letter from gallant & macmillan. i have spoken to the company who are real solicitors they have a web site.

i was told that MOS instructed a soft ware company to track illeagal usage of there files on the internet, g& M have taken out a court order against the ip providers in my case sky and have obtained the addresses of the holders. she assured me that they are real solicitors and that the letter is genuine, they will be taking a case up and that the only way to be cleared is to either pay the 375 or take legal advice to prove you havent down loaded the file in question. my letter quotes the annual 2010 and gave a date in december.

[davvruss]

as an add on to the above the girl at G & M did giove me teh soft ware company name but i didnt note it down she said they were a world wide company

[trevmurray]

i have the same letter from gallant & macmillan. i have spoken to the company who are real solicitors they have a web site.

i was told that MOS instructed a soft ware company to track illeagal usage of there files on the internet, g& M have taken out a court order against the ip providers in my case sky and have obtained the addresses of the holders. she assured me that they are real solicitors and that the letter is genuine, they will be taking a case up and that the only way to be cleared is to either pay the 375 or take legal advice to prove you havent down loaded the file in question. my letter quotes the annual 2010 and gave a date in december.

 

I just got this same letter about annual 2010 and gave date 23.12.10

[JW93]

Can someone please help?

My mother has been issued a copyright infringement letter for a Cascada song.

The letter is asking her for damages of £295 and because of recent financial troubles, we won't be able to pay this fine very easily.

I'm only 17 and me and my mother do not want to go to court to fight it.

The letter didn't specify what song was downloaded so by googleing the copyright holders, I found this site.

I don't wish to dig through 150 pages of this thread to find the right advice.

I can give more information if necessary but can someone please respond soon?

Thanks

[jpl]

I've had a letter from Gallant Macmillan today today regarding us allegedly downloading a Ministry of Sound file....really worried and I am going to read the forum in more detail. I'm confident that no-one in the house would have shared anything from our computer, but how do I prove it?

 

I've just called Sky to try to verify our IP address and they are no help at all, they just quote a 192.168....generic one.

 

Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated, do I respond, or just ignore it?

[safe_hands]

i have the same letter from gallant & macmillan. i have spoken to the company who are real solicitors they have a web site.

i was told that MOS instructed a soft ware company to track illeagal usage of there files on the internet, g& M have taken out a court order against the ip providers in my case sky and have obtained the addresses of the holders. she assured me that they are real solicitors and that the letter is genuine, they will be taking a case up and that the only way to be cleared is to either pay the 375 or take legal advice to prove you havent down loaded the file in question. my letter quotes the annual 2010 and gave a date in december.

 

 

I thought the burden of proof was theirs as there making the accusations and as far as im aware the sort of proof they are taking about is only that an ip address linked to us was linked to the traffic of an uploaded file.

[ben_zod]

Don't panic anyone - read this site: Being Threatened?

[captain-123]

I've had a letter from Gallant Macmillan today today regarding us allegedly downloading a Ministry of Sound file....really worried and I am going to read the forum in more detail. I'm confident that no-one in the house would have shared anything from our computer, but how do I prove it?

 

I've just called Sky to try to verify our IP address and they are no help at all, they just quote a 192.168....generic one.

 

Any advice or guidance would be much appreciated, do I respond, or just ignore it?

 

Are you sure Sky quoted a 192.168 address? This isn't the address that Sky would give you as this type of address comes from your router and not you ISP. Sky would not know about any 192 type addresses as this is the other side of your router which is designed to keep internal (192) address and externall addresses seperate. Doesn't really make any difference to the claim just seems odd that's all

[captain-123]

as an add on to the above the girl at G & M did giove me teh soft ware company name but i didnt note it down she said they were a world wide company

 

 

Can you remember anything about the name of the company so people can try to do some reasearch?

 

Edit: Sorry I meant the monitoring company

Edited July 9, 2010 by captain-123
Clarifiacation

[trevmurray]

company is gallant macmillan llp solicitors based in london

[Cammy77]

Hi I just recieved a letter the same as joe1979 however I am with sky not easynet and I have never used bittorrent and the IP address is not my IP address and I did not download the ministry of sound - the annual 2010 on 8.12.2009. What do I do, ignore it, phone them or send them a letter.

[trevmurray]

I recived this same letter what is the best action

[davvruss]

gallant & macmillan are registered with the law society

[safe_hands]

sky bought out easynet in 2005 and is still one off te names associated with sky ip addresses. i believe with sky that they have system that issues an ip address out of a network group of addresses when you log on or something similar to that so you dont have the same ip address all the time the digits after the last dot change.

[tp123]

To all new recipients of letters.

 

Don't panic - this sounds very much like the scheme that ACS Law have been running.

 

If you didn't download/upload anything - DON'T pay anything.

If you did download/upload something - seek legal advice but don’t pay what they are asking – it is disproportionate to any losses incurred by the rights holder. Better still don't pay anything until they prove you did, because they can't from just an ip address.

 

Read this forum thread, it will help you make an informed decision about how to proceed.

 

@ davvruss – it would be helpful if you could remember the name of the company used to monitor the ip addresses, or maybe phone up and ask for it again?

 

Cheers

[trevmurray]

If I didn't upload file and I got this letter. What do I do,ignore it, phone them or send them a letter.

[mattpaint]

@mattpaint, was your film mediacat or something different?

 

Did they give any reason for the amount being double the norm?

 

 

without giving away specifics...it was a certain porn film and its sequel so it was for 2 films i suppose...yes it was media cat...

[captain-123]

without giving away specifics...it was a certain porn film and its sequel so it was for 2 films i suppose...yes it was media cat...

 

 

I don't think it works like that it's not the case of debbie does dallas x 2 a sequel is still only one film. In Jaws 2 there wern't 2 sharks or an extra film

 

Sounds like another cockup if you pardon the joke