Good response to Virgin Media’s anti piracy plan

The cable broadband and TV provider Virgin Media’s new anti piracy plan has been welcomed by the music industry, which will be getting involved with the company’s new subscription-based music download service.

The Universal Music Group has become the first major label to sign up with the new Virgin Media service, which provides DRM free Mp3 and streaming music too.

The service is due to be launched during the fourth quarter of the year, but the company will also be cracking down on illegal peer to peer file sharing throughout its network.

One of the steps begin considered is the withdrawal of broadband if illegal file sharers fail to take notice of the warning letters.

The Virgin Media download service will be available in two options; the first will allow a certain amount of downloads, while the other offers unlimited downloads.

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