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Originally Posted by TraxData
No, VM are working in co-operating with the police to get warrants to search properties for illegal equipment, they can trace you quite easily.
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I would have thought there were ways to track cloned boxes, but many of the other boxes would be extremely difficult.
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P.S i suppose you could say for admitting on a forum as they have caught people by tracing them through IP's with forums as well.
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I refuse to believe even Virgin are thick enough to go after individual users in this manner. It is in no way, shape or form cost effective or any kind of effective, unless the people they are going after are selling illegal equipment on a large scale. They would never get a search warrant purely on the basis of forum usage, though, I think places like eBay would probably release the details of people selling illegal equipment.
Anyway, VM customers must at least be happy that they're finally paying some kind of attention to the TV division.
Also, I asked you this earlier, and you didn't reply. How widespread do VM consider piracy to be? I've only just started reading up on it over the last few days when this thread appeared, and my impression is that some of it would actually be beneficial to them. Personally, I know a lot of people who have Virgin TV, but I don't know a single person who uses an illegal box. The-cable-guy's story about whole streets hooked up with illegal cable sounded exaggerated, or at least atypical to me.