Comments on: Virgin Media Targets Illegal Downloaders

By: virgin user

virgin user — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:43:37 +0000

am i missing the point here could someone please explain all these super duper broadband speeds what is the point of them ??? mean i have 20mb connection but how much do i need to connect to yahoo or some site about growing your own tomatoes cause thats all that will be left and sites of a similar ilk, think virgin has shot its self in the foot here ,think again branston think youve got your self in abit of a pickle here

By: e

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:03:23 +0000

what a suprise like hes not making enough my stuff is my own when i need the secret services ill ask myself thanks for nothing

By: police state

police state — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:07:20 +0000

The uk is almost a police state already since brown the criminal traitor signed our sovereignty away and nobody even realises yet 3000 new laws… do you know them?, i have a criminal record, no jury, no solicitor, they deprived me of my meds for fifteen hours, look at the comments sullivan and karen brady made recently on the corruption in football and how the police treated them.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:46:06 +0000

STOP Virgin Media!!

By: peeved

peeved — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:41:11 +0000

There is a government petition - not able to put weblinks on this blog, but you can search for it. It’s shory name is ‘Lawyer ISP’, and it’s title is “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force internet service providers to act as legal representatives for the link)' );">RIAA and be treated like a common courier…”

By: peeved

peeved — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:01:21 +0000

This is bloody annoying, but a symptom of the corporatised internet. Though I am sure there will be workarounds for first the virgin tracking and then the government blocks, eventually the internet as a free space will become less of a sharing community and more of one large shopping mall - unless we fight back on the terms that the music industry are fighting. They have been lobbying you say? Couldn’t we lobby too? Couldn’t we oppose the legislation before it happens, to make sure it doesn’t happen?? .. and in the meantime obviously vote with our feet and leave virgin too.

By: Kinny

Kinny — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:25:01 +0000

So lets get this straight; The BPI can ask the Post Office to open and look inside all our wrapped packages at the depot, all because they are a bit larger than a few of the other ones laying around for dispatch??? what is the bearded one thinking?

By: Mr kay

Mr kay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:36:10 +0000

That’s it!!! I’ll be rushing out to sign up for VM broadband. My current ISP lets me do what the heck I want online - all I ever wanted from my ISP was restrictions.

By: john

john — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:07:25 +0000

I couldnt agree more with these comments - the consumer has been continually ripped off by the big record companies - I remember replacing my scratched LP s for “unscratchable ” CDs only to find they were just as likely to get damaged.
Apple are the worlds largest digital download retailer - they have no expensive retail space , storage space , high staff costs , loss through theft cost , unsold stock , transport costs , insurance costs , the list is endless and yet still charge 7.99 for most of their album downloads - I have paid my dues to the record industry , and now buy my albums from www.legalsounds.com at an average price of 50p an album.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:03:23 +0000

I joined WM about a month ago because I thought they wouldn’t do this. Anyone know if I can leave before the 12 months is up? This will mean reconnecting to BT :-(

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:58:15 +0000

Won’t filtering traffic make them responsible for content? I thought all ISPs avoided this because once they do anything other than provide a carrier service they can be sued by all and sundry for allowing people to access various things.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:53:59 +0000

The first letter I get it will be goodbye virgin

By: Dysko_stu

Dysko_stu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:53:33 +0000

I never signed up for Virgin in the first place I signed up for Blue Yonder, a day before they were sold to Virgin. I have now past my mandatory year and if this is for real, I will be going elsewhere. Perhaps the BPI would like to contact Royal Mail about looking through my post, in case someone sent me a cd in the post.

By: Ricardo J

Ricardo J — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:36:02 +0000

What about when they take someone to court and find out that they were not the person downloading? Some people have not locked their network routers!

By: SI

SI — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:58:49 +0000

Simple really, why dont company like VIRGIN MEDIA, give you free access to musci downloads via a Virgin site, which would be included within your monthly subscription.

If they were to do this, they would get a lot of customers to join.

Oh hang on thats too simple isn’t it, silly me

By: DafneL

DafneL — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:05:52 +0000

I don’t download music but I am not going to stick around on an ISP that is planning on spying on me. I’ve been with virgin.net for about 10 years and am leaving.
I encourage all other Virgin customers to do the same - to set an example before all other ISP’s start infringing on our privacy as well.