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 …..

I think there's too much division between MPs to allow something like this for the time being.

@raphjd: Anyone know how to put this in Vista x64? (Quote from ISOHUNT Forum - Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:15 pm) PG2 does work on Vista(x86) but not on Vista(x64) … I am running Vista(x64) so I don't use PG2. I just add the ipfilter.dat to µTorrent's settings folder. By typing this into the run dialog %AppData%\uTorrent. It will open the folder. Just rename the nipfilter.dat to ipfilter.dat and copy it into that folder.

I don't know about the rest, but 1 of the Egyptian cables has had a temp repair with 60% capacity restored.  This is added on top of the one cable that wasn't cut. They are going to completely replace both the cut cables with the newest fiber optic cables.  According to various sites, the new cables will have 100 times more capacity than the old cables.

In another article on this topic, the same police will still be after people who pirate stuff from the internet. Then again, does it surprise anyone that there are 2 set of laws, us and them?!

It must be noted that Carphone Warehouse also owns Talk Talk and several smaller ISPs, as well as AOL UK and it's own brand {CPW} ISP.