Virgin to identify pirates with BPI

nj2006 · 25-03-2009, 11:46 AM

Virgin Media is working with the music industry to identify broadband users who appear to be sharing music illegally.
They will be sent "informative letters" on how to "safely download music from the internet and avoid the risk of legal action" from both the ISP and the BPI, the industry association.
"The BPI and Virgin Media believe that, in many cases, customers may not be aware that their account is being used in this way," said a statement today.
"Accounts will be identified by Virgin on the basis of information supplied by the BPI. Both letters will be distributed by Virgin, without the need to disclose customer names and addresses to the BPI."
The BPI, recently lent support by the government, wants service providers to take action against music piracy, but many of them have opposed the idea. The agreement with Virgin is the first of its kind in the UK.
BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: "Education is absolutely key to reducing the extent of illegal downloading, and we are pleased to be working with Virgin Media on this campaign.
"We believe that new partnerships with ISPs can help build an internet in which music is properly valued... This joint campaign with Virgin Media is the first step towards achieving that goal."
The government has threatened to legislate to make ISPs responsible for their users' downloading material illegally if voluntary solutions are not found.

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humforce · 26-03-2009, 10:00 AM

and who will they send the letter too if its not a legimate modem.

pande_monium · 27-03-2009, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by humforce

and who will they send the letter too if its not a legimate modem.

Couldn't help but smile at that, lol. Nice one

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krelborn · 07-04-2009, 12:37 AM

Already got my letter and i must say its rather amusing :P It goes along the lines of "at the moment we cant do anything but one day we might be able to" enclosed is the letter the BPI sent to virgin and a note saying none of my details have been passed to them! Oooooh....scary!

junkiepilot · 13-06-2009, 08:29 AM

I suppose this mainly aimed at P2P users. Any chance they can track rapidshare users???

AciidSn3ak3r · 13-06-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by humforce

and who will they send the letter too if its not a legimate modem.

They cant can they?
It looks like its the modem owner thats downloading the files no?

zakjee · 29-10-2009, 12:20 AM

What about people downloading from torrent site eg movie

excalibur · 19-11-2009, 11:07 AM

unless you are using a secure tunnel then they will be able to see everything that you do, so rapidshare files yes but as you are not sharing then no problem so far. Torrent is file sharing so if your pc is uploading then that constitutes sharing.

by the way a cheap secure tunnel that is quite fast and also allows torrents, newsgroups ( if yours dont have a secure server) etc is gotrusted.

damastaglen · 28-11-2009, 06:19 PM

how much do you download to get that letter?

xman · 08-04-2010, 07:48 AM

I suppose is easy for them to spot who is using the broadband for more than emails and web... harder for them to know what exactly you sharing but I suppose is not impossible... there are ways to share in private mode but is difficult to be hidden on the internet...

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