Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Why is p2p tv downloads only a civil offence?

and owning an r4?

not condoning just asking

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

as far as im corncerned then TBH it should be a criminal offence to own a mod chip for a wii/ds/ps3 and to download films and tv shows from p2p why is it not?

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/02/0...in-derbyshire/

I wasn't sure where to post this link originally posted by muppetman11 but I thought it was worth putting it somewhere that more members would be able to see/comment without taking the Coming Soon thread way off topic.

I do like to see good news being reported. Maybe those who paid money up front to participate in the theft of TV services will think twice about doing it again.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Wasn't quite sure were to put it LOL :D

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Good news bears repeating. :)

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Card sharing is seriously stupid (relatively easy to stop at the source and traceable).

Is it only me which finds it annoying that VM/Telewest spent years exclaiming dodgy boxes are inflating the price for everybody else... yet now they've got around to doing something about the vast majority of boxes - oh, the price is still going up.

Makes me feel a little better about my position on dodgy boxes at the time which was that although I didn't condone it, I didn't find it offensive (unlike cloned modems which wreck someone else's connection).

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

:clap:

:clap: :clap:

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Theft is theft, what ever way you look at it.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

This is such good news :)

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Yep, hooray for Section 11 of the Fraud Act 2006 ... that inconvenient little law that the thieves and cloners either think doesn't exist or doesn't apply to them.

News just in: It does and it does.

:D

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Virgin IMO wasnt bothered about dodgy boxes. They still got there basic subscription charges (where the money is), folk stole sky movies and sports (which virgin dont make money on anyway)

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Nice view down in the sand? ;)

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

They were and you guessed it they still are as this proves. :)

The servers are the weak link and are so easy to trace.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

They are now that sky threatened them with the removal of sky sports but i dont think they were. Any plans to sort out the dodgy modems?

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Dodgy modems are dead in the water. There are hardly any of them on the network now. Look at the sites where the modders live and you will see they have all but given up on them because of the new network and its security.

Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
 

Yep, the migration to DOCSIS 3.0 and presumably the introduction of SEC as a follow on to BPI+