Fair enough if "any and all" want to take Ursula's ill-judged and offensive advice and have nothing to do with my request for help but all I can do is stress that, yes, I am a journalist working for a Dublin-based newspaper and I am working on a story to do with the subject matter I posted about. I'm not sure how or why such an approach would be a 'scam', or how such a scam would even work, let alone why on earth anyone would want to pose as a journalist to make a scam work. From my own experience of posting on forums for help with whatever story I am working on, posting my phone number etc just attracts spam etc. All I'm looking for is anyone who wants to be interviewed about file-sharing in the context of the latest IRMA court result. And ideally, I would like to talk to anyone in Ireland who is likely to be affected. It's not rocket science!

I reiterate...

I and others in the p2p community have seen hundreds of posts similar to yours.
My response is neither ill-judged nor intended to be offensive.
It is intended to be protective.

And, I assure you that the following comment is also not meant in an offensive manner, but if you were even slightly further down the investigative trail you would certainly be aware of the points I initially raised re: individuals posing as journalists and soliciting "info and sources for articles."

Further, as I am alone here, for the moment (in terms of 'moderating' duties) I did consider placing all posts from you into a temporary status of " moderator review before posting"....
This I did not do to you as I considered it to be excessive. I still do.

I do hope that you will continue to monitor this thread of yours and that soon other of the moderators here who also have both the years and the memories will enter the fray and assure you that my reaction to your posts is balanced, respectful and validly doubtful.

Cheers for now...