On January 26, 2010, the UK’s Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall —yes, it’s a real title—stood up and told his fellow peers in the House of Lords that the new crop of anti-P2P “settle or we’ll sue your trousers off” warning letters were a travesty of justice. “In a civil procedure on a technical matter, it amounts to blackmail,” thundered the libertarian lord-slash- blogger . “The cost of defending one of these things is reckoned to be £10,000.

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Feature: "Straightforward legal blackmail": a tale of P2P lawyering