How to find out a previous connection IP Address

If you accessed these forums during this time period then we could do a check on which IPs are linked to your account?
 
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It is technically impossible to prove that you downloaded illegal content. There are many arguments against it. Unless the ISP and the Lawfirm are in cahoots and the court system is complicit. Then you can simply ask them to prove that you had that ip (which the isp would have to confirm and would likely struggle to prove). They could produce logs but you could just say that it is simply a plain text file that can be edited. They also have to prove that you downloaded the material. If they produce a log or screen shot, just claim that it could easily be faked. There is realy no one to remotely prove that you were on a torrent. Without actually searching your home and having the full illegal copy of the data on your pc, which they can display as evidence in court. You could also argue that even if you did download the content of such a name, the content might have been fake and had a virus and was not real. The name of the illegal material alone is not evidence, they would have to prove that the content was their intellectual property. Which after the fact technically is difficult to accomplish, you could simply claim that it was not the same torrent and that they simply picked the illegal material and falsely associated an ip address with the illegal content and then went on to claim that the ip address was falsely associated with yourself in attempt to extort money. There is realy no grounds for the case.
 
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This sounds a lot like the Prenda case in the states and the plantiff lawyers in that case are under fire from the US court system.
 
jsmoke said:
They are all LAN IPs, which means they can't be yours, anything outside your router can't see your LAN IP.

OOps I missed the 8.1.436.0 but it looks like it's a Microsoft IP.
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Erm ... Given that it has a 436 in it that is probably going to be the version of the SMTP software. It's not an IP address.
 
Troll them.

Send a letter back saying "I've seen this movie and it was abysmal. Anyone associated with its release has brought shame on the film industry."
 
This can happen. I was once accused of uploading a game to newsgroups.

This was in the pre broadband days. As if I'd waste my time and bandwidth doing that so they can't and do get it wrong.
 
OP Look up ACS Law

There was a company sent similar letters out previously.
Their single test case failed.
The judge then reported them to the professional body who oversees solicitors.

Firm
The main partner of the firm, and its only registered solicitor,was Andrew Crossley. Crossley has been found guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority three times, in 2002, 2006 and again in 2012 and is currently suspended from practising as a solicitor.
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Its a scam under a different name, do not pay anything, I am surprised your legal counsel didn't know about this previous firm, and their strategies.

OP had the film a title which suggested hard core porn or something of a deviant nature? As often they shock people into paying fees to try to avoid such names becoming associated with your own name.
 
Do any of the legal eagles here telling him what to do have any decent appreciation of how the law differs in Germany?

Surely it's a bit of a dangerous game telling him to do things based on an understanding of UK law if in Germany things operate a bit differently.
 
I had a letter from ACS years ago about an album I downloaded (allegedly).

At the time I was on a forum with people in a similar situation and someone posted a legal reply letter basically saying "prove it" along with advice of ignoring any follow up letters. I sent the letter and ignored the 3 follow up letters. Not only did ACS go bust but they were involved in a massive scandal when wikileaks leaked the contents of their entire email server.
 
Kenai said:
Do any of the legal eagles here telling him what to do have any decent appreciation of how the law differs in Germany?

Surely it's a bit of a dangerous game telling him to do things based on an understanding of UK law if in Germany things operate a bit differently.
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Exactly. I'm not saying people saying to ignore it are wrong, but it's not always so simple. I think I've made up my mind now as to what I'm going to do:

- I won't sign the cease and desist form provided by the lawyer accusing me.

- I will however send a modified cease and desist form, which will safeguard me from any further problems of this nature.

- Then I do nothing. Any further warnings will be filed for my records, but ultimately ignored unless there is a concrete demand that I appear in court (most of the time a threat to take someone to court is their last move - an act of desperation to get someone to pay).

The fact after all is that I did not even download this file, so it sounds like they're chancing their arm a bit. To take something as small as this to court would be expensive for them and wouldn't be worth the money they would stand to win. Yet, when the evidence they do have is insufficient to stand up in court anyway (which it must be), then they won't pursue it. They are only interested in making money quickly so they send out masses of these letters (I read that in 2011 it was about 8,000 recorded cases) so if they are successful with just 25% of them, who just pay up immediately, then they've already made almost €2m - and that at the cost of a bit of their time and thousands of postal stamps.

No worries people. I'm not going to bow down to these unreasonable, uncompromising, immoral vultures. I just want to understand the situation I'm in as fully as possible. And proving my innocence is just a part of this.
 
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okay suprised no one has pointed this out

Torrent trackers generate fake IP's that are connected to the torrent in question to throw off the man and waste his time

To actually take a person to court they not only need his IP info from the tracker
but they need to connect to them and download a chunk or two of the file as evidence (so if you never actually downloaded this movie you have nothing to worry about) ,
they never bother trying to do this, they just chance their arm with an IP (that would never hold up in a court of law)

So my advice , just ignore it , they have never had a sucessful conviction from an IP alone
 
if it was not sent recorded i would ignore it totally....

If you have use bit torrent I would erase my PC and reinstall jsut to be safe, possibly also buy the film as well if you are paranoid (with cash not card).

if it comes to anything why would you pirate a film you own... where is the evidence you even used what ever torrent software they say you did...
 
lurkio said:
okay suprised no one has pointed this out

Torrent trackers generate fake IP's that are connected to the torrent in question to throw off the man and waste his time
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cool if its true I was thinking that would be a good idea (for pirates not the innocent)
 
peterwalkley said:
Fire your ISP. They shouldn't be handing over your details to these scum.
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I think they received the lawsuit first. Obviously not wanting to take the blame, they deflected it on to me.

edscdk said:
if it was not sent recorded i would ignore it totally....

If you have use bit torrent I would erase my PC and reinstall jsut to be safe, possibly also buy the film as well if you are paranoid (with cash not card).

if it comes to anything why would you pirate a film you own... where is the evidence you even used what ever torrent software they say you did...
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I don't have bittorrent. Never have had it. I have used things like Kazaa (back in the day) and more recently utorrent, but never used bittorrent. Also the film in question isn't even out on DVD yet as far as I'm aware. It's called Parker and it was apparently at the cinema (at least here in Germany) not long ago. Like I said, I had never heard of it before this letter came.
 
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