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Originally Posted by Horizon

I doubt they will increase the upload speeds too much for the same reason they brought in traffic management, ie to stem illegal downloads.

Now that usenet is essentially dead due to the DCMA takedown notices, there is a lot of capacity on the network, not that it was ever short to begin with. Virgin don't want to ruin that by increasing upload speeds too much. if you want your favourite shows, ad free, and to use on any device you want, the piracy route is still the only way to go. But of course VM like other ISPs, don't made any money out of that.

The netflix tieup is indicative of which way VM are going, ie, start to be more flexible and allow customers the content they want on the device they want. But it will be a long time yet before they are as flexible as the piracy route.

Usenet is the same as it always was, definitely nowhere near dead.