| Submit your comments on this article |
| Britain |
| 'Hacked' law firm abandons filesharer pursuit amid bomb threat claims |
| 2011-01-25 |
| A London law firm has abandoned its widely-criticised attempts to extract hundreds of pounds in damages from internet users it accused of unlawful filesharing, claiming it has received bomb threats. In a statement read to the patent court, Andrew Crossley, the founder of ACS:Law, said he had stopped issuing demands for damages. "I have ceased my work... I have been subject to criminal attack," he said via his barrister, the BBC reports. Mr Crossley made the announcement in the middle of a case against 26 alleged unlawful filesharers, brought on behalf of MediaCAT. "My emails have been hacked. I have had death threats and bomb threats," Mr Crossley's statement said. Today the Metropolitan Police told The Telegraph it had no knowledge of any bomb threat against Mr Crossley or ACS:Law. In October however, Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver, a Virginia law firm involved in a similar pursuit of alleged unlawful filesharers in the United States, evacuated its offices after receiving a bomb threat via email. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Horsefeathers. He recognized it was a losing proposition. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-25 12:42 |