http://bitbucket.kylewelsh.com/2008/03/31/virgin-agrees-to-be-ifpis-copyright-cop/ Syndicated content on computing and internet technology Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:15:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://bitbucket.kylewelsh.com/2008/03/31/virgin-agrees-to-be-ifpis-copyright-cop/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Xepharian Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:37:19 +0000 http://bitbucket.kylewelsh.com/2008/03/31/virgin-agrees-to-be-ifpis-copyright-cop/#comment-188 This discussion has been going on all day at TorrentFreak. http://torrentfreak.com/isp-to-voluntarily-disconnect-file-sharers-from-the-internet-080331/all-comments/#comments Personally I think that we pay an ISP to offer us a service, if they can no longer offer the service that they offered us when we signed up then we just go elsewhere. Virgin advertised unlimited movies and music at high speed in their tv advertising campaign for a long time to get customers and now they suddenly change their minds? I suspect that Virgin will lose a lot of customers over this issue. What is the point of offering a high speed internet connection when, as a user, you can't download anything. May as well go back to dialup and send a few emails on pay as you go. This has become a big issue but I strongly suspect that the perpetrators (mpaa,riaa,bpi etc) have only their own purse strings in mind and it is certainly not a move to protect the "poor" performers. The likes of mediasentry and many others have sprung up just to make a fast buck for themselves. Big business spells big bucks for itself. This discussion has been going on all day at TorrentFreak.
http://torrentfreak.com/isp-to-voluntarily-disconnect-file-sharers-from-the-internet-080331/all-comments/#comments
Personally I think that we pay an ISP to offer us a service, if they can no longer offer the service that they offered us when we signed up then we just go elsewhere. Virgin advertised unlimited movies and music at high speed in their tv advertising campaign for a long time to get customers and now they suddenly change their minds? I suspect that Virgin will lose a lot of customers over this issue. What is the point of offering a high speed internet connection when, as a user, you can’t download anything. May as well go back to dialup and send a few emails on pay as you go.
This has become a big issue but I strongly suspect that the perpetrators (mpaa,riaa,bpi etc) have only their own purse strings in mind and it is certainly not a move to protect the “poor” performers. The likes of mediasentry and many others have sprung up just to make a fast buck for themselves. Big business spells big bucks for itself.

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