ACS:Law said its methods were accurate
More than 150 people have contacted the consumer publication Which? Tips alleged ill were on the offensive against illegal file sharing.
ACS: law has to hold thousands of letters to people who have illegally downloaded material sent and gives them a chance to settle through the payment of nearly 500.
What? said he was approached by some – including a 78-year-old accused of downloading pornography – they have no knowledge of the alleged offenses.
ACS: Law stated that his methods were correct.
The London-based company said it would soon send letters.
But in recent letters sent two weeks ago have brought a new ten people, they had been unjustly accused.
One said: What? My 78-year-old father received a letter yesterday demanding legislation ACS 500 for a porn archive accused of downloading.
He does not know what the BitTorrent file-sharing networks, or it is certainly not doing themselves or anything else for permission to use your PC to do so given. What? The computer concerned that too many innocent people wrongly accused will.
Consumers are innocent actions threatened for infringement of copyright, not only, but would not know how to undertake, said Matt Bain, technology editor of Which?
Many will be shocked to pay rather than the stress of a court battle will be, he added.
He advises people who believe they have been misled consistently rejected and, if possible, to provide physical evidence, where they were when the violation was committed.
He advised them to contact you with details of your case.
Andrew Crossley, ACS: Right, said that some cases were withdrawn, but he declined to give figures.
He said he is convinced that the method used to detect the IP address for the illegal downloading is infallible.
We are pleased that our information is absolutely correct, he said.
He said the letter does not accuse individuals.
We explained that there is a breach, but can not the holder of the account that said you have made, he said.
He advised those who believe they were unjustly accused to seek specialist advice or technical advice for the office of citizen.
But he warned that people should not only think that the letter and say they will do.
Mr Crossley said that most of the contents of the shared music illegally are only 10% of adult content.
He told the BBC that the company has a number of clients he represented, including the German company had DigiProtect content.
The company, based in Frankfurt and marked benefit his company with the slogan piracy.
He has represented a number of rights holders in the past, including the German techno band Scooter.
It keeps track of the suspected hijackers of the notification of the individual Internet Protocol or IP address of users on Internet file-sharing networks connected.
Then ask the Supreme Court on broadband business to customer-contact details need to comply with these guidelines.