Virgin Media Adopts Three-Strikes Rule for Illegal Downloads

[Robbie]

I have 4 unsecured wireless networks near me, all Virgin!

[Nli.]

This is all confusing seeing as there is data protection involved, how would they know what were looking at or not?

[Jordan3606]

afaik yeh, its against the data protection act to spy on someone's internet usage.

I thought ISP's recorded your net browsing history to make sure you're not viewing illegal websites? Or I may be mistaken...

Anyway, I'm not with Virgin Media so I shall enjoy free music downloads before BT decide to take up this scheme

[StefanCampbell]

Encrypt your downloads and use proxy? simple?

[N!ck]

It is pretty much impossible to tell legal downloads from illegal without using extensively monitoring what you're doing, which is probably against the data protection act anyway.

If you get cut off for using BitTorrent just claim it is the only fesable means for you to download opensource data like Linux distributions. The chances are they wont't be able to tell the difference.

[Dentafrice]

I don't see how they will know it is "illegal" downloading.

Bittorent clients, as well as most P2P file sharing applications are perfectly legal, just some of the content on them are not.

Unless they are like "spying" on you, they wouldn't know what you are downloading? They would only see a connection between a computer and you, sharing a file would they not?

[Redacted]

Im on VM, Will they catch you through Limewire?

[Dentafrice]

Limewire is legal, as I said earlier.

Most P2P clients are legal, just using them to download illegal content is not

[N!ck]

It is probably easier to trace the nature of the files being downloaded via LimeWire then it is through BitTorrent (i reckon anyway).