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Internet News · 02-04-08, 04:41 AM

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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the insaan · 02-04-08, 09:09 AM

they'll soon revert when they have no more valid customers, just people using cloned modems

skweezer · 02-04-08, 06:10 PM

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.

madrat · 02-04-08, 11:44 PM

1984 anyone

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skweezer Technology Forums Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 390 Thanks: 51 Thanked 51 Times in 39 Posts	Re: Virgin Media will be first to disconnect users for illegal downloading 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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madrat Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Leicestershire Posts: 2,209 Thanks: 11 Thanked 71 Times in 61 Posts	Re: Virgin Media will be first to disconnect users for illegal downloading 1984 anyone __________________ *VIRGIN, STOP SENDING ME JUNK MAIL.*

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