Friday, September 2, 2016

1000 Swedish file sharers get dunning letters – New Technology

Shared movies or music online? Now looking Dissemination Kollen for you. Up to 1000 people could get dunning letters sent to them in the autumn, according to the company.

From August, people who fildelat be contacted by letter with demands for compensation. Behind the letters, the initiative Dissemination Kollen, who on his website describes as follows: “The initiative consists of an information campaign and partly by copyright holders now will begin to defend their legal right and the opportunity – without court orders – direct claims against file sharing”.

Spread Kollen run by Gothia Law that have agreements with rights holders Scanbox, Atlantic, Crystalis Entertainment and Noble Entertainment. The company has been looking for file sharers since last spring, and monitors the current situation around the 150 films and TV series fildelats illegally via so-called bittorrent networks such as The Pirate Bay.

The tracking of file sharers is done via IP addresses. For those who pay requirement, nothing happens, but refuses someone may lead to litigation.

– It asks the requirement, and if you get an objection to go to the court, says Gorgon Oden Bark, spokesperson for Spread Kollen DN.

According to information will be a first stage sending collection letters to between 500 and 1,000 people, each of which will be required of 2000 kronor in damages. This sum, however, be increased with time, said Dissemination Kollen.

The criticism was not long in coming. The operator Bahnhof registered themselves briskly brand Dissemination Kollen:

So this explains Dissemination Kollen themselves:

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