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I have no problem believing it's millions. I know many people who got one, some deserved, some not. Last year my mom got one. She died in 2012. It's also worth
by Udo 10y ago
I have no problem believing it's millions. I know many people who got one, some deserved, some not. Last year my mom got one. She died in 2012.
It's also worth noting that these letters cost about 1000 Euros each, there is almost nothing you can do about them, and they require not the slightest bit of evidence that you actually did anything wrong.
- dahart 10y agoYikes, what a scam. Can you point me to any info in the history of this and what the German government is or is not doing about it?
- iamjeff 10y agoHere [1] is a fairly exhaustive examination of this scam...mind boggling..here is a sample "In cases involving peer-to-peer sharing of music files, the value of the claim was regularly set at €10,000 per file by the rights-holders...Recipients of Abmahnungen often pay the costs without consulting a lawyer, or negotiate a settlement themselves. There is a noticeable tendency to pay rather than challenge the claim..." and "the evidence collected about the infringement will only identify the IP...This IP address needs to be matched against the subscriber to whom it was allocated at the time of the infringement...by way of a judicial disclosure order...[in which] German courts are rather reluctant to engage in an assessment...[for instance] within 9 months in 2009, 2824 disclosure orders were sought in Cologne alone, each relating to several hundreds of IP addresses." [1]-The RedTube copyright infringement affair in Germany: shame on who? (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600869.2015.1012777 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600869.2015.10...)
- rorykoehler 10y agoThere is one thing you can do. Ignore them completely. It's been known to be a very effective strategy.