Virgin Media Adopts Three-Strikes Rule for Illegal Downloads

[Jordy]

I'm sure some computer nerd will invent some system to get round this easily

Yeah, proxies, and you don't even need to be a nerd to use one

[Blob]

Can't they see the sites your on though?

Your internet browser >>>> Contacts Virgin Media's thingy

Virgin Media log the site >>>> Sends you the page

Well
Im dumb at this stuff, but doesnt it go through their server (the pages)

[awelsh]

Can't they see the sites your on though?

Your internet browser >>>> Contacts Virgin Media's thingy

Virgin Media log the site >>>> Sends you the page

Well
Im dumb at this stuff, but doesnt it go through their server (the pages)

but theres a few million people, so they couldnt really track every single packet your computer sends and recieves

[Blob]

but theres a few million people, so they couldnt really track every single packet your computer sends and recieves

Maybe flag sites and if it see's you visiting a flagged site / not just like file it up for checking?

[awelsh]

Maybe flag sites and if it see's you visiting a flagged site / not just like file it up for checking?

dont really know how they will work it out to track anything, maybe they will have some sort of list of download websites that they will block, but then you could just use proxy's to get past that. And torrent files woiuld be even harder to lock down on wouldnt they?

[Jordy]

Luckily I live in France and the french are so technologically ******ed that music download isn't a big thing here.

I guess you should know as you live in France so your probably right but I thought the French where the first to implement the three-strikes system in the first place and they set off the anti-torrent theme in Europe? I could be wrong but I think they're the toughest on it and they started all this three-strike rules. I'm sure the French are probably more technological advanced than us

Edit: My thoughts where true:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2404/196/
http://www.escholarlypub.com/digital...glish-channel/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...20Search&meta=

The post below couldn't be more true!

[awelsh]

I guess you should know as you live in France so your probably right but I thought the French where the first to implement the three-strikes system in the first place and they set off the anti-torrent theme in Europe? I could be wrong but I think they're the toughest on it and they started all this three-strike rules. I'm sure the French are probably more technological advanced than us

damn the french

Edited by Kaotix (Forum Moderator): Please don't post pointlessly.

[Robbie]

Wow Virgin Media are becoming spies.

First VM, BT, and TalkTalk sign a deal with Phorm (www.badphorm.co.uk) to give them a list of every site we go on so they can intercept our service with "targeted advertising", and god knows what else, now they spy on what we download. How are they going to distinguish between good and bad downloads, legal and not legal. How many customers download music, I'd say 9/10 do, and it's the BPI that are tracing this, not Virgin Media really, the BPI check it all out then give our IP's and Account Numbers etc. to Virgin Media, who will then do all this 3 strike system thing. The BPI are going to have their work cut out. Richard Branson: "Lets sell our customers history to Phorm and give it to the BPI, yay that will get us more customers!".

What a load of rubbish, I am now seriously considering changing. BeThere are also adopting this, fgs.

/rantover.

[Wizard]

WHY VIRGIN MEDIA?!?!?! WHYYYY?

[awelsh]

Back to aol for me hopefully, or I could jus leech of one of my neighbours wireless as theres 2 that I can connect too