Copyright trolls ACS:Law and Mediacat are no longer trading

ANTI-PIRACY LAWSUIT SPAMMER ACS:Law and its client Mediacat have ceased trading.

An email leaked at Torrent Freak reveals the companies were shutting up shop at the same time. But it's not all good news, as the owners of both firms, Andrew Crossley and Lee Bowden, are setting up new companies.

Before shuffling off their mortal coils the two companies were behind a slew of letters threatening copyright actions against individuals. Blogger Joe Hickster has been tracking ACS:Law at ACS:Bore after having been accused of filesharing by the law firm and harassed with letters threatening a lawsuit.

"It is true that ACS:Law and their symbiotic monster Mediacat have ceased trading," he blogged. "It was announced in yet another leaked email."

There are too many news stories at the INQUIRER regarding ACS:Law and Mediacat's activities to link to them all individually. However, it's worth knowing that ACS:Law's website was hit by an orchestrated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after spamming thousand of innocent Internet subscribers.

In fact, ACS:Law employed underhanded tactics like offerring ISPs cash for data on their subscribers. BT even sent the firm unencrypted personal data on its users. The debacle also hit Sky, which later suspended all co-operation with ACS:Law. If you've managed to raise the ire of Murdoch's giant, how bad are you? µ