Pay To Prove Your Innocence!

[SimonMac]

BBC News - Internet piracy appeal fee challenged by Consumer Focus

Suspected internet pirates will have 20 working days to appeal against allegations of copyright infringement and must pay £20 to do so, according to revised plans to enforce the UK's Digital Economy Act.

What happened to good old innocent until proven guilty!

I read that the named user on the contract with the ISP will be the one responsible for all usage of the internet connection, I wonder what would happen if the name was a fake one? Is their a flaw in the system

[AtW]

What happened to good old innocent until proven guilty!

It works only in criminal cases...

If you can't spend £20 to defend your good name then it's not worth it in the first place...

[MarillionFan]

The court will stand for Arse Ticklers, Bum Bandits & Squirrel Felching Movie Incorporated against Mr AtW on grounds of illegal file sharing which resulted in a halving of sales for the prosecution.

[Gloucsman]

There was something similar to this a while back in the UK and USA, a firm of solicitors tried to take a load of filesharers to court...but it seriously bit them in the behind - ACS:Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia