Won the war against piracy? Nope, NTL lost the war...
In a different way....
You get a "WD TV live" and you have all movies you want. Why pay Virgin? And you have blue ray-HD quality, max it out during the night. Virgin ain't offering that. Oooops, yes they do, free via newsgroups.... Just choose every evening the movies you fancy, let them download during the night.... No need for giganews or astronews whatever ...
Sorry off topic but its the right direction for piracy
The only cost is 10TB of hard disk to store all those 20G blue ray movies....