Under scrutiny from a judge, pressure from regulators, and bomb threats from the public, notorious UK antipiracy lawyer Andrew Crossley is getting out of the business. In the UK's special intellectual property court today, Crossley presented a statement saying that he was done sending out "speculative invoicing" letters demanding around �500 from accused peer-to-peer file-swappers, many of whom have totally denied the charges.
After years of delay, Crossley recently brought a raft of cases against alleged copyright infringers. Instead of securing straightforward legal victories, Crossley ran headfirst into the buzzsaw that was Judge Birss QC, who bundled the cases together and then blasted Crossley's request for default judgment. It turned out that three of these initial eight cases weren't even in default, while in three more, there was no evidence the defendants had ever been notified. But the case was so badly brought that the judge wouldn't even grant default judgment in the two cases where it might be warranted, pointing out that it was an unsettled legal question whether people were liable for activities committed over their unsecured WiFi networks or activities committed by others using their accounts.
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