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| London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game                      |
|   from the tip-of-the-iceburg dept.                                |
|   posted by kdawson on Friday May 09, @10:21 (PC Games (Games))    |
|   http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/09/1346229 |
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[0]Barence writes “A PC Pro reader has [1]received a demand for a £600
out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence
that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. The law firm,
Davenport Lyons, is acting on the behalf of German games distributor
Zuxxez, creator of the game in question, Two Worlds. The PC Pro reader
was given no prior warning to stop file sharing, unlike the usual ‘three
strikes and you’re out’ approach adopted by the music industry. The
reader says, ‘To add insult to injury it [Davenport Lyons] didn’t pay
enough postage on the letter and I had to collect it from the sorting
office at a cost of £1.30. This also used up most of the two weeks that
it allowed for a response.’”

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Links:
0. http:www.pcpro.co.uk
1. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/195564/fury-as-london-lawyers-demand-600-for-single-game-download.html