More than 150 people have approached consumer publication Which? Computing claiming to have been wrongly targeted in crackdowns on illegal file-sharing.

ACS:Law has sent thousands of letters to people claiming they have illegally downloaded material and offers them a chance to settle by paying around £500. Source: BBC.

Personally I wouldn’t pay them a penny, Andrew Crossley, of ACS:Law, might say:

That he is convinced the method used to detect the IP address used for illegal downloads is foolproof.

“We are happy that the information we get is completely accurate,” he said. Source: BBC.

Absolute rubbish – ACS:Law aren’t saying how they collect IP Addresses so one can’t identify the loopholes in their methodology – but one thing you can be sure of on the internet and that is, nothing is foolproof.

ACS:Law hasn’t actually been to court yet and I’m with Matt Bath, technology editor at Which? On that point,

I suspect that if they went to court it would be very difficult to proof beyond doubt that a particular individual was responsible for downloading the illegal content. Source: BBC.

As I said don’t pay ACS:Law