You have been working on writing songs for some years now,
and have been selling them as downloads from IrishTunes - they seem
to be going down well in France. Your ISP has been contacted by a French song writer who says you have stolen his tunes. The ISP doesn't
want to be sued, so has told you they are going to remove your site
from their system.
What could you do?
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