"Lord Roberts of Llandudno was also given air time this morning as part of the short sound extract. His mention of "and the use of this technology, especially by Virgin Media, to write to 800 customers warning them about this downloading" - does anyone know what he is talking about? I suspect it is to do with the video and music file sharing. If so, it does show that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the 2 different methods of detecting."
Madslug, yes you are correct, these letters are ref. the downloading of "illegal" music. I mentioned in a post a long time ago about a case that is still ongoing about people that downloaded a game called "Pinball" or something like that. Some ISP's have given the names and addresses of these people and they are being threatened by a law firm called Davenport Lyons to cough up several hundred pounds or be taken to court.
Just seen this, ZDNet pictures and article of the Phorm protest at the Barbican.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1...9448963,00.htm
Dave.