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CardJoe · 1st Apr 2008, 08:43

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04...nish_sharers/1

ISP Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Institute have joined forces to implement a three-strikes policy which will see sharers of copyright content disconnected.

BioSniper · 1st Apr 2008, 08:45

April fool or real article?
I just cant tell!

sotu1 · 1st Apr 2008, 08:56

april fools! come on! BPI!? you can't be serious! i'll keep torrenting my pr0n thanks!

mmorgue · 1st Apr 2008, 08:57

This has to be April Fool's. Has to be...

Otherwise, I'm gonna use the C-word in a bit, as in, Virgin Media, "you're a bunch of"...

But regardless, on a brighter note, the alt.* universe still teams with a multitude of delicacies to be had, all the time..

WILD9 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:10

Please let this be an april fool. Otherwise I think thats the last straw in NTL Telewests slow painfull fall from grace since Virgin bought them. So now thats - No Sky 1 , No HD channels worth mentioning, stringent bandwith throttling and now 3rd parties able to thumb through my downloading habbits. What a bargain, Still theres always the free bandwith upgrade I just got so I can max out my extremely tight download cap even faster whilst someone watches me like a hawk.

WILD9 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:12

Looking back on google, this started to be reported yeasterday and is on the telegraph website so I'm guessing its probably not an April fools.

sotu1 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:17

hehehe...i know it's an april fools! i'll wait til later to tell you why!

DXR_13KE · 1st Apr 2008, 09:35

how many customers do they have? how many of them share stuff? that is the amount of clients that will walk away.

WILD9 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by sotu1

hehehe...i know it's an april fools! i'll wait til later to tell you why!

Enlighten us, I can see this plastered all over the internet now, some of it starting on the 30th so its more of a smear campaign than an april fool if it isn't true.

sotu1 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:40

actually, totally ignore me. this may be true actually. i totally misread this article, i thought it said british pornographic industry! i figured that was the dead give away....clearly i have one totally tracked mind! haha! guess that makes me the fool this april! hehe

WILD9 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:51

lol, I think i might not have gone public with my outrage if it was the pornographic industry

sotu1 · 1st Apr 2008, 09:55

if it was the pornographic industry then i definately woulda gone public with outrage!!

actually, a few other things i thought might've given it away. in this article, there's no reference or quotations or evidence to back it up, and another site i check for news said that BPI was a music based company, which obviously clashed with my interpretation of a pornographic industry!

crushednutts · 1st Apr 2008, 10:15

Not an April fool, I read this on the Cableforum yesterday and the fact that Virgin were going to implement the 3strikes rule has been mentioned for a while.now.

K.I.T.T. · 1st Apr 2008, 10:33

april fool i hope

naokaji · 1st Apr 2008, 10:37

well, it specifically says they will monitor the p2p traffic... if it would be real that would probably not be written in the article since there are like 500 other ways than p2p to d/l stuff and i'm sure virgin would monitor everything, not only p2p.

iwog · 1st Apr 2008, 11:28

awww crap looks like its time to buy a usenet or a rapid share pro account

MiNiMaL_FuSS · 1st Apr 2008, 11:51

how do they tell what's legal p2p traffic and what's illegal?

iwog · 1st Apr 2008, 11:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiNiMaL_FuSS

how do they tell what's legal p2p traffic and what's illegal?

Thats a good point, i think in june i shall be archiving every linux distro and all patches i need for my games just to get a letter before i leave uni. But i think the BPI will be torrenting major releases themselves so they can harvest IPs to send to VM. Lets hope PeerGuardian does its job and i wont need that RS or usenet account after all.

Flibblebot · 1st Apr 2008, 12:27

Are Virgin giving the BPI access to their network so they can monitor any torrent traffic, or are they going to setup fake honeypot torrents and trap people that way?

sgr55 · 1st Apr 2008, 12:33

Quote:

how do they tell what's legal p2p traffic and what's illegal?

The article indicates it's not Virgin Media doing the monitoring. They are simply screwing over good customers.

The BPI can simply monitor torrents that are known to contain pirated content or log onto a P2P network and share dummy files to entrap people. Pass on IP's that connect and let virgin deal with the backlash

1st Apr 2008, 08:43	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,940	Virgin Media and BPI to punish sharers http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04...nish_sharers/1 ISP Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Institute have joined forces to implement a three-strikes policy which will see sharers of copyright content disconnected. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

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WILD9 Been here aaaaages Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Cheltenham, UK Posts: 565	Please let this be an april fool. Otherwise I think thats the last straw in NTL Telewests slow painfull fall from grace since Virgin bought them. So now thats - No Sky 1 , No HD channels worth mentioning, stringent bandwith throttling and now 3rd parties able to thumb through my downloading habbits. What a bargain, Still theres always the free bandwith upgrade I just got so I can max out my extremely tight download cap even faster whilst someone watches me like a hawk. __________________ e2180 @ 2700 \| Gigabyte P35C-DS3R \| Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro \| 2GB Crucail Ballistix PC 6400 \| Leadtek 8800 GTS 640 @ 600,1500,1700 \| 320GB Samsung F1 \| Coolermaster 710 \| Samsung 22" 223BW

1st Apr 2008, 09:12	#6
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mmorgue Supermodder Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mos Eisley, in the bar... Posts: 378	This has to be April Fool's. Has to be... Otherwise, I'm gonna use the C-word in a bit, as in, Virgin Media, "you're a bunch of"... But regardless, on a brighter note, the alt.* universe still teams with a multitude of delicacies to be had, all the time..

1st Apr 2008, 09:17	#7
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sotu1 Mini Love Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England, South of. Posts: 1,167	actually, totally ignore me. this may be true actually. i totally misread this article, i thought it said british pornographic industry! i figured that was the dead give away....clearly i have one totally tracked mind! haha! guess that makes me the fool this april! hehe __________________ Death to consolification !!! [size=1]Give me my Windforce! I'm coming back!

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1st Apr 2008, 09:55	#12
sotu1 Mini Love Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England, South of. Posts: 1,167	if it was the pornographic industry then i definately woulda gone public with outrage!! actually, a few other things i thought might've given it away. in this article, there's no reference or quotations or evidence to back it up, and another site i check for news said that BPI was a music based company, which obviously clashed with my interpretation of a pornographic industry! __________________ Death to consolification !!! [size=1]Give me my Windforce! I'm coming back!

1st Apr 2008, 10:15	#13
crushednutts What's a Dremel? Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1	Not an April fool, I read this on the Cableforum yesterday and the fact that Virgin were going to implement the 3strikes rule has been mentioned for a while.now.

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