Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months

Found on Zorrentfreak on Saturday, 05 April 2008
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For anti-piracy company, Logistep, life is becoming more and more difficult by the day. They have been deemed to be operating illegally in Italy and have been slammed over privacy issues in the home country, Switzerland.

Lawyer Elizabeth Martin had been demanding 400 Euros from hundreds of thousands of file-sharers who Logistep say had been infringing the rights of software company Techland, on their game 'Call of Juarez'.

Unfortunately for Elizabeth Martin, it's not just the general public who are disgusted by her actions. She has been the subject of a Conseil de l'Ordre du Barreau de Paris disciplinary investigation - and subsequent condemnation - by none other than her own peers.

Elizabeth Martin was ordered by the disciplinary board to suspend her activities as a lawyer for 6 months. Furthermore, she was banned from belonging to the National Council of the Bars (CNB) and other such professional associations for a period of 10 years.

Ahh, Logistep again. Every time you read about them, they're up to the ears in something illegal, or at least something very shady. Anyway, hundreds of thousands of filesharers for a single game? Must be the new Tetris or Pong. And lawyers really wonder why everybody hates them...