Thread: Virgin Media to Launch World's First Unlimited Music Download Service
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Old 15-06-2009, 15:35   #34
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Re: Virgin Media to Launch World's First Unlimited Music Download Service
http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...ic-deal-608374

Some nice nugets in there, like:

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I heard that even accessing a pirate website would mean that my Virgin Media account is cut-off, suspended or slowed down, is this true? What are the punishments?

Virgin Media has told TechRadar that this is not the case. As the press release says: "No customers will be permanently disconnected and the process will not depend on network monitoring or interception of customer traffic by Virgin Media." As far as we can gather; what this means in practicality is that Universal and/or the other potential partners will monitor P2P traffic in exactly the same way as the BPI does now – alert Virgin Media if one of its files is being shared by a Virgin Media customer and VM will then respond.

Our understanding is that the 'punishment' will start small (probably a warning letter) and then be cranked up a notch for each repeat offence until, as Virgin says: "[the repercussions] include, as a last resort for persistent offenders, a temporary suspension of internet access."
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