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Listed below are comments made by ebvjb45 between Monday, 8th December 2008 and Wednesday, 11th March 2009.

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Davenport Lyons - threatening letters 1:28pm on 11 Mar 2009 As a recipricant of one of these demands I decided after much research and legal advice to ignore the letter completely.

Today (11th March 2009) I have received a follow up letter from them. In this letter they tell me that they have decided not to take any further action and they also “apologise for any inconvenience or distress this matter may have caused”.

No real valid reason has been made for their back down on this matter in my instance, but I am wondering if others have received a similar back down from them might look to see if this has happened to them also? I wonder though what the real reason for their back down is.

If this is the case I wonder if those that did pay up will get a refund of their money
Davenport Lyons - threatening letters 8:50pm on 08 Dec 2008 I also received one of these letters accusing me of uploading and making available a porn film called Euro Domination 5. As a happily married pensioner of 64 years old I ask you!. After plowing through the documentation I spotted one or two items that are either missing or incorrect.
It would appear that although they have my full postal address they do not have my name! The letter and documentation is addressed by name to “Provider, Royal Mail Holdings PLC” If they do not use my name or appear to know it how on earth can they carry out any threats of court actions?
For me they list that the upload was done using three different IP Addresses, but all at the same time! As I understand it, my ISP issues me with single new IP address dynamically each time I reconnect to the internet (NOT THREE). As I use an ADSL Network Router that IP Address remains allocated to me till I switch off the router or disconnect it from the telephone line. The router is left switched on for weeks at a time. This throws some doubts on their data gathering reliability.
Doing a Google search on the name Davenport Lyons brings up some interesting facts about this company. After reading the comments about them and their ways of doing things I am certainly not going to be paying them a settlement. I will wait till they try to take me to court and fight it there.
Needless to say I have not seen this video, downloaded it or uploaded it.

It would have been most useful had Watchdog named the Lawyer who is representing the 400 people who received these demand letters, as I would like to make that figure up to 401 with my name.

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