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Hi Squid
thanks for the heads up. Getting ready for their next move.
I just hope someone will one day do something about this, raising awareness would probably be enough for starters. I would rather watch Panorama having their stab at them than strictly, BGT, Xfactor etc.

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John,

Thank you for your post. I am much much calmer now, gone are the stomach problems and shaky hands :)
I decided to ignore all the correspondence from now on. Whatever they write, it wont bother me from inside the shredder.

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Will probably ignore them, returning it could possibly prompt 'name fishing' expedition...
Thanks very much for your comments, you've been very helpful.


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I am starting to relax a little, this is really helpful thanks.
Would you suggest I ignore it completely or return the letter with a note 'addressee unknown'? 

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Hi Robert,

I get your point about the template letter, I haven't looked at it this way and I can see your logic (or lack of mine if you like  ;) ) .
By saying I don't have the money I didn't mean I'm unemployed and have no penny to my name - what I meant was I would find it extremely difficult to pay the fine/bill/ransom (whatever it might be called) due to my current obligations - it is substantially different I know, none the less it would mean serious trouble.

It is a bit reassuring what you said about the domain and the company, however bloggers do not register their blogs as companies do they, yet they get letters from g***y from what I know. Are letters normally addressed to legal dpts of a particular company/domain or does g***y send them to John Smith's etc?

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Hi Angry Welshman and thank you for the welcome and your reply.

Yes it is letter from Getty, sorry for not being specific its just I was literally s*itting my pants - they surely achieved the first part - I am indeed scared and feel intimidated.
I simply don't have the money to pay them and I fear that I might have used more than one of their images on my site (no way of telling really, site no longer exists). So as you might imagine I am scared as hell and don't want to reply in case they punch me with another letter. The people I mentioned in my earlier post seem confident they can make it go away but... I cant find anything that would support this. 

Thank you for your kind words of reassurance but could you expand a little bit? Why do you think I shouldn't need legal representation? Or when do you think I should in fact consider this? This forum is a great place to get  a lot of valuable information but I also learned that each case its unique and there is no one simple answer.

Is the fact that I no longer own the domain and the site doesn't exist in any way beneficial?
The company they refer to in the letter does not exist and it never did, it was just a project for my NVQ. Does this make any difference you think? 

Thank you very much

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Hi Guys,

Im new to this and until now I thought I am being scammed but having read all about it, I know that it is for real. Just received second letter (first one ignored completely thinking that someone is trying to pull my leg). So I came across copyrightinfringement.org.uk and am wondering if any of you used them and what the outcome was? I searched the forum but not much is being mentioned about them. 
As you might imagine I am scared as hell and not really sure what to do. My website is shut down and I no longer own the domain but still they managed to get me. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you


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