Both this weblog (
here) and the IPKat (
here and
here) have previously posted items on the
Golden Eye saga, where an attempt was made to recover not insubstantial amounts of money from the recipients of letters which informed them that they had been indulging in unauthorised peer-to-peer file-sharing of pornographic films; details of the recipients of these letters were obtained from their internet service providers, but that information did not establish that it was they who had been using their computers for that purpose.
This case, and rather larger-scale efforts to do likewise in Germany, got a mention in yesterday's proceedings at the MAPPING Extraordinary General Assembly (on which click
here for background).
Do any readers of this weblog know whether the Golden Eye demands are still being issued and whether any proceedings for copyright infringement have issued? And can anyone supply information about attempts that have been made to do things in jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom?
