UK lawfirm threatens Wikileaks over publishing bittorrent extortion threat

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This is a partial copy/paste of a letter that can be downloaded from here:


UK lawfirm Davenport Lyons threat to Wikileaks over publishing its DigiProtect bittorrent extortion threat, 18 Feb 2009 - Wikileaks

UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from Digi - Wikileaks
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On Thursday 11 December 2008, a substantial extract of a letter we wrote was published on
your website.

Publishing one of our letters, in part or in its entirety, without our express permission on a
website where any member of the public can access it at any time is a primary infringement
of section 20 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988.


Accordingly, we should be grateful if you would remove the infringing letter and any related
material from Wikileaks upon receipt of this letter, and at your discretion, exercise Wikileak's
right to terminate the account of Mr J Ferris.

We enclose a copy of our letter for your
information.



Davenport Lyon

For more detailed and additional information go here:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Davenport_...tortion_Letter


Scroll down to Full source documents
and you'll see the following:

* UK lawfirm Davenport Lyons threat to Wikileaks over publishing its DigiProtect bittorrent extortion threat, 18 Feb 2009
* UK lawfirm Davenport Lyons threat to J. Ferris re copyright on its DigiProtect bittorrent extortion threat, 18 Feb 2009
* UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from DigiProtect GmbH, 18 Nov 2008
* UK law firm Davenport Lyons to Robert Green, Nov 2008

Pick and choose the one you'd like to read up on.



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