The BBC reports that a UK law firm plans to file at least 15,000 legal demand letters earlier next year against people suspect of file sharing. The letters will threaten lawsuits but offer settlement terms of hundreds of pounds per person.
UK Law Firm Planning to File Thousands Of P2P Demand Letters
November 27, 2009
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Thats a sure way to make money. Unless you have a personal agenda, I doubt if any of the innocent people would be willing to go through all the grief / effort to fight it for a couple hundred bucks.
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