Piracy letter campaign 'nets innocents'
Found on BBC News on Monday, 25 January 2010
More than 150 people have approached consumer publication Which? Computing claiming to have been wrongly targeted in crackdowns on illegal file-sharing.
Andrew Crossley, of ACS:Law, said that some cases had been dropped although he declined to give numbers.
Some are already in the process of going to court, he told BBC News, although the majority of the accused settle out of court.
That's one way to make money: fire out thousands of threatening letters and let the recipients pay up. Drop those who complain and if it goes to court, admit a "rare" error and drop the case.