{"id":70773,"date":"2009-12-08T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091207\/0102027231.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-08T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:02:00","slug":"digiprotect-now-handing-pre-settlement-threat-amounts-over-to-collections-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/70773","title":{"rendered":"DigiProtect Now Handing Pre-Settlement Threat Amounts Over To Collections Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve covered how various companies in Europe have built up an extremely profitable business<\/a> by purposely seeding content<\/a> they have the rights to on file sharing networks, and then sending “pre-settlement” letters demanding money from the holder of any IP address that connects to them, even if the IP address is not accurately indicating<\/a> who was involved. They’re now sending out these letters at a massive rate<\/a>, and while they’re not actually filing lawsuits, it appears that at least one of the firms involved, DigiProtect, is getting a collections agency involved in some cases<\/a>. That seems pretty nasty. There’s no actual debt here, because the person has not agreed to pay up, but by handing it over to a collections agency, the person will now get hounded with demands for payment. It’s difficult to see how this is even close to legal.<\/p>\n

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We’ve covered how various companies in Europe have built up an extremely profitable business by purposely seeding content they have the rights to on file sharing networks, and then sending “pre-settlement” letters demanding money from the holder of any IP address that connects to them, even if the IP address is not accurately indicating who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}