Thanks trurk, that's spot on I think at first view.

humm this is scary.. i was introduced to Tor about a month ago.. and i have been using it sometimes, would anyone know whether it helps to protect my identity? i turn it off because (must be my settings..) it prevents me from downloading, could only upload… thanks Whitney

For me that sounds like scam or blatant lie. As a first thing: no German court can sentence a foreign ISP to divulge any information. 2nd: there is no real High Court in Germany, the highest court in Germany is the federal constitutinal court - and that is not allowet to accept a claim from a p2p company. So the next highest court (for civil and or criminal law is the "BundesGerichtsHof (BGH)" but they cant take a claim with a the value of £ 500 - that value has to be decided by a "normal" court (Amtsgericht). 3rd: there is already a sentence (of a federeal state's upper court, IIRC Berlin) which allows a state lawyer to dismiss a claim that aims to get a Internet users personal data from an ISP by a criminal claim (only way to get a court order to divulge that information legally) only to start a civil claim from that data. There seems to be something terribly smelling about such detours. I can only advise each of our users who gets such letters to search legal advise - please remember - I am not a lawyer and I'm not allowed to give legal advice.

I too received a letter today from Davenport Lyons asking for £505.21. I was well gobsmacked it was for the film XXXXXXXXX some months ago. They wrote to BT my then ISP and got the tracking details fom them. Last night I was so upset, it's a lot of money which I can little afford. Edit:Users request.

I reveived a letter from a UK solicotor demanding £500 fow downloading XXXXXXX IO cannot believe and it has left me quite sick, so much money Edit:Users request.

Thanks about that! Indeed it seems to be working find now! Thanks again…officer! 

I would move. Immediately. If not sooner.

well there you go - the whole system theyve just spent 8 years putting in place is now capute….

yes well its a biggy deal we've been hit by a culture of such de-regualtion in the free market the ISPs are due too loose out on the main stay of massive  profits and many could go under - there are literally hundreds and hundreds of ISPs for such a tiny country. I think the move will be about the whole globe taking a specific attitude to copyright infringement - it has been a golden era - but it wont be the end -the technology is just too diverse - whole new worlds will replace what we do today….

here in south africa where the 4mb lines are just appearing we tend to get adsl lin es but get contracts isp bundles instead we only pay for the lines , connection speeds are terrible and we usually have a limit as per isp , so we are limited to the amount of bandwith purchased on a month to month basis our monopolising industry (telkom) are partly state owned which means that p2p are throttled at default. you are lucky thet you are getting those fast lines , the 4mb lines are very expensive and nainly business users can afford them R3000.00 or so per month adsl 512mb costs about 450 pm excluding the isp …..