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Re: uTorrent
You do realise what Virgin Media would have to do in order to limit downloads from illegal and only illegal torrents, yes?
They would have to: identify that a torrent was being opened; identify the seed that was being torrented from; investigate the nature of the content, and determine if the seeder had rights to disseminate that information; having established that said torrent was in violation of copyright law choose to throttle that torrent, effectively abetting an act that they have identified as criminal rather than preventing it; and do so with every torrent opened across the Virgin cable network. I'm sure that that kind of Packet/Application/Routing Analysis Network Operation Inhibition Apparatus is possible, but it's unlikely that it would function without a significant whitelist or immediately evident detriment to other traffic.
Or, you know, you get what you pay for. Not in your download, I hasten to add, but the upload of whoever it is you are stealing with. Not that I mind, you understand. I used to kill the record industry with home taping.
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