News Virgin Media and BPI to punish sharers

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04/01/virgin_media_and_bpi_to_punish_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.

 

April fool or real article?
I just cant tell!

 

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

 

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..

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

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.

 

april fool i hope

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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?

 

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