Comments on: Virgin Media Will be the First UK ISP to Disconnect Illegal File-Sharers

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m just waiting to read an article about the head of a record label software company government official who championed the program to get cut off of the internet. That is if they are even using it.

By: Spurge

Spurge — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

UK is a nasty place indead. This is going to lead to Virgin getting sued for disconecting an innocent person.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

If someone made an effort to be falsely banned I wonder if they could turn around and sue.

By: skweez

skweez — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

yes but think on this.. with all those subscribers deserting or being banned from the service it’s going to open up massive bandwidth potential I wouldn’t be suprised if very shortly we don’t see speeds of up to 200mb on offer with unlimited downloads to boot…
alright admittedly there’ll be absolutely squit to download but the burst speed as one navigate back and forth between Argos.com and Tesco.online will leave one breathless..

By: flyingrhino

flyingrhino — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Ahh…. encryption…. turn it on and they’re helpless. How hard can it be to check a checkbox ?

By: Shenmuex

Shenmuex — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Let me rephrase the headline:

Virgin Media Will be the First UK ISP to lose 90% of their costumers!

HA!

By: esecallum

esecallum — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Everyone should pretend to be a copyright holder and get everyone disconnected.

Surely if they analysing all the traffic they must incurring slow down have extra hardware to precess the gigaytes of info going through.

and processing consumes electricity which is not very green

think about if all the isps process terabytes of info how much extra electric bills will go up as this will be a 24/7/365 operation.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

How about creating a torrent app that just downloads and uploads Linux while no one is using the machine. Release the software in protest and swamp all the ISP’s form of digital protest.

By: thoouth

thoouth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

You all seem to be making pretty big assumptions about HOW the BPI investigators will identify illegal file-sharers. I suspect that this will not rely on data filters but on the same tactics seen used already by the games industry: I think the BPI will effectively use an adapted version of something like uTorrent download a file recognised as a copyright infringement and then log all IPs that they connect with whilst downloading pieces of the torrent. This then gives them pseudo-anonymised identifiers which can be linked with paying customers by the ISP (in this case Virgin Media). If you read the article closely (particularly the original one at the london times website) you will see that there is NO discussion about data filtering or inspection of data packets.

This aside this seems to be a bit of a witch-hunt to me so I am cancelling my VM contract ASAP. Let’s all hope that this pilot scheme fails dismally.

By: trooperbill

trooperbill — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Mountain Rage – I had exactly the same idea… something big like iso’s of DVD os open suze or something! Im sure all the linux heads would jump on the bandwagon just for the hell of it

At the moment ive just download ants p2p to see if its any good