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Old 02-04-08, 04:41 AM   #1 (permalink)
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It looks like Virgin Media will be the first to implement a ‘three strikes’ policy against clients who are believed to be downloading music illegally. This is part of a wide reaching effort began by record companies to disconnect anyone they consider to be illegal downloader’s. This is the first time that an internet service [...]

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they'll soon revert when they have no more valid customers, just people using cloned modems
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how can they do this ?
say i am downloading a movie in rar format how can they know what i am downloading ? and what if it is password protected ?
i can kind of understand if they do it for music like .mp3 files but how will they do this for zip and rar files ?

getting kind of worried.
oh well if they do this they'll be the one who will lose most of their customers.
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1984 anyone
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