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    • "We suffer more in imagination than in reality" - really pleased this all happened. Settled by TO, full amount save as to costs and without interest claimed. I consider this a success but feel free to move this thread to wherever it's appropriate. I say it's a success because when I started this journey I was in a position of looking to pay interest on all these accounts, allowing them to default stopped that and so even though I am paying the full amount, it is without a doubt reduced from my position 3 years ago and I feel knowing this outcome was possible, happy to gotten this far, defended myself in person and left with a loan with terms I could only dream of, written into law as interest free! I will make better decisions in the future on other accounts, knowing key stages of this whole process. We had the opportunity to speak in court, Judge (feels like just before a ruling) was clear in such that he 'had all the relevant paperwork to make a judgement'. He wasn't pleased I hadn't settled before Court.. but then stated due to WS and verbal arguments on why I haven't settled, from my WS conclusion as follows: "11. The Defendant was not given ample evidence to prove the debt and therefore was not required to enter settlement negotiations. Should the debt be proved in the future, the Defendant is willing to enter such negotiations with the Claimant. "  He offered to stand down the case to give us chance to settle and that that was for my benefit specifically - their Sols didn't want to, he asked me whether I wanted to proceed to judgement or be given the opportunity to settle. Naturally, I snapped his hand off and we entered negotiations (took about 45 minutes). He added I should get legal advice for matters such as these. They were unwilling to agree to a TO unless it was full amount claimed, plus costs, plus interest. Which I rejected as I felt that was unfair in light of the circumstances and the judges comments, I then countered with full amount minus all costs and interest over 84 months. They accepted that. I believe the Judge wouldn't have been happy if they didn't accept a payment plan for the full amount, at this late stage. The judge was very impressed by my articulate defence and WS (Thanks CAG!) he respected that I was wiling to engage with the process but commented only I  can know whether this debt is mine, but stated that Civil cases were based on balance of probabilities, not without shadow of a doubt, and all he needs to determine is whether the account existed. Verbal arguments aside; he has enough evidence in paperwork for that. He clarified that a copy of a DN and NOA is sufficient proof based on balance of probabilities that they were served. I still disagree, but hey, I'm just me.. It's definitely not strict proof as basically I have to prove the negative (I didn't receive them/they were not served), which is impossible. Overall, a great result I think! BT  
    • Seeking further advice now. The 33 days in which the defendant has to submit a defence expires at 16:00 tomorrow. The defendant has submitted an acknowledgement of service but looking to get the claim awarded by default in failure to submit the defence. This is MoneyClaim Online and can see an option to request a default judgement but believe that is for failure to acknowledge the claim within 14 days??  So being MoneyClaim Online, how do I request the claim be awarded in my favour?
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Hello forum,

this is not a request for something to do, it's well explained all over this forum, just want to share a case and add some considerations.

Timeline:

Contacted by a sale representative of Ansys by email (contacts taken from internet website and social networks), located in Europe, attaching a pdf letter intimating the illegal use of Ansys for several years, asking to review the letter in 7 days.

Nothing to hide, I consider myself a polite person, I replied denying all and asking for what he called "evidence".

He asked for a meeting, this was denied, I have no time to waste.

After some more exchange of emails he sent a single log line (saying it was part of the full log) with an ip address, geographical coordinates and an image of google maps.

Replied one more time, last time, reiterating what I were writing in previous emails.

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Now waiting for a contact from solicitors, and of course all future communications will be ignored.

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Considerations:

- In my specific case the ip address is not belonging to me (their target)

- Even if the ip address was mine, it's not even relevant in a possible lawsuit; there are very serious past cases in my Country, not relevant to copyright, which stated that it's not possible to link a person to an ip address

- Their logs have no value: logs are txt files and unless of property of a third party legal entity they are simply text files and who knows if they have been altered..

- Even if the logs are authentic I'm quite sure I could be able to sniff the authentic sent packets, forge my own with fake data and send to their piracy control system

- Mac addresses were still not shared; like ip addresses they have even less importance, they can be spoofed or, even more, they can be changed for virtual adapters

- Even if they open a case, most probably they will open it in the court where their company resides (US?); the law, in my Country, says that the case must be opened in the Country of the defedant; they state that the user accomplished to their terms and conditions of their contract when the user installed the pirated copy; however, a sentence in the UK stated that the contract inside a pirated copy has no value and cannot be considered valid

- Do they know what is GDPR? if they can track users, and they can (till now, I know they grab ip addresses and they use wifi tracking), they can be reported to the privacy guarantor in Europe, and I think in UK too..

- Just to give you some "numbers": Ansys sent in this year (2023) an average of 3,5 emails with letters attached per day.

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All of this was before reading this forum.

 I will update this post for more information on how the situation will evolve, just to have a complete report of this.

 

Special thanks to dx100uk

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ignore totally

 

dx

 

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Hello all,

following this thread I opened about one year ago:

I waited a year before posting again about this, because sometimes you can find similar discussions but with no follow up, and when someone receives such email may go into panic and wants to read something comforting.

Well, my last email to that 'kind person' was dated may 2023 and it said that the ip address was not belonging to my company, nor to any person working in my company, and that I didn't know how they could link geographical coordinates to my company.

My last sentence was that they could request to the internet provider releasing that ip address name and surname of the owner, and that they would find that it didn't belong to my company (and btw...this was the truth).

I also added that I had to report him to local authorities if he continued to write to me or to any of my colleague. STOP.

He still replied that geographical coordinates are provided by wifi triangulation.

Pathetic...this email had no reply from me.

From then, no new email from these people.

So advices are still valid, ignore totally.

 

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i wouldn't of bothered to ever reply myself.

simply invites pointless letter tennis.

dx

 

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please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I agree, but why not?nothing to hide from my part. Obviously, this is valid for a couple of mails, once I explained my reasons there's no need to further discuss 😛

 

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gives them a feeling of grandeur.

dx

 

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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