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Old 24-07-2008, 21:54   #63
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Re: Britain's six largest ISPs and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing

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Originally Posted by Jelly View Post
As far as I know, cloned modem = cloned IP address.
only one modem can have a certain IP address so a cloned modem gets a different one.

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Originally Posted by Horace View Post
Re: cloned modems.

The BPI collects IP addresses not MAC addresses so that completely negates the possibility a customer being warned/advised due to someone else using the same mac addy on a cloned modem. Pity because it might of pushed VM to do even more about the cloning problem if they had thousands of irate customers suing them.

I suppose the conclusion might be reached by a lot of people who are tier hopping, i.e. paying for the lowest tier and using a cloned modem for 20meg to cancel the subscription altogether due to worries about the BPI.
although the BPI sends an IP address, how do VM convert the IP address to a customer? First they'd need to check the dhcp records which no doubt would match to a MAC address, they then check who has the MAC address on their account.
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