Virgin Media to cut off pirates

[Singh400]

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Then I read further down the press release and found what Virgin was offering in return - action against persistent file-sharers. Here's the key paragraph:

"This will involve implementing a range of different strategies to educate file sharers about online piracy and to raise awareness of legal alternatives. They include, as a last resort for persistent offenders, a temporary suspension of internet access. No customers will be permanently disconnected and the process will not depend on network monitoring or interception of customer traffic by Virgin Media."

That sounds like the "technical measures" that the creative industries want included in the Digital Britain report, as a backup to the despatch of warning letters. But by promising "a temporary suspension of internet access" for persistent offenders, Virgin appears to have gone further than any other ISP in acceding to the demands of the music industry.

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Thoughts? I can't see this happening. Pretty sure the EU has already declared internet access as a basic human right...

[kalniel]

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-channe...downloads.html

[Agent]

Isn't most P2P traffic and 'other' sources going the encrypted route these days anyway?

[Singh400]

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-channe...downloads.html

Ah oh. Mods do your thang.

Isn't most P2P traffic and 'other' sources going the encrypted route these days anyway?

Yeaahh, nearly all pirate traffic is encrypted. Only public trackers don't have encryption.

[jimborae]

"Virgin Media to cut off pirates"

How are Virgin going to cut thmselves off!!

[gss03]

If Virgin are promoting themselves as having "Super Fast" 50mb broadband using fibre what is someone supposed to do with all that bandwidth??

[Splash]

Eerm... offer the unlimited music downloads as linked by Kalniel?

Obviously their "super fast" broadband is likely to be anything but based on their current service offering, but...

[fezfezed]

Surely they will loose all their 20 and the new 50Mb subscribers. Im sure folks that use the 20 and 50 meg services do more than just browse the net, send a few emails etc. I dont see this happening though, in times like these Im sure Virgin want to keep hold of the subscribers that they have.

[Cornholio]

Damn im screwed then...