Comments on: ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usenet

By: Provider will Filesharer abkabeln oder ins Usenet umleiten - The Inquirer DE

Provider will Filesharer abkabeln oder ins Usenet umleiten - The Inquirer DE — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:49:13 +0000

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By: Mr Popodopolous

Mr Popodopolous — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:04:10 +0000

*72

You mean to say, that Data Protection and Privacy Laws won’t be superceded by this? That is promising!

And if the worst comes to the worst we switch ISP’s, or go to the EU…I do think the European Court of Rights would look dimly on these proposals!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:35:32 +0000

All you have to do is sign up to an SSL encrypted usenet service such as http://www.bitnabber.com and the ISP will not have a clue what your are downloading.

By: mee

mee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:34:42 +0000

Who says there is nothing good on usenet? all good scene releases -movies, albums, games etc get released on usenet within minutes of it being PRE’d in the scene. If you use sites that tell you about new scene releases it will tell you what has just came out and then you will be able to just search for that and it will most definately be there.

Usenet > p2p

By: David

David — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:36:19 +0000

With all the recent news on what TM is doing, its no wonder why so many are jumping ship. For me, what kept me on were the LEGITIMATE newsgroups access they had to offer. With that gone now, my motivation to stay is non-existent. Luckily, I found another usenet provider, newsdemon.com that lets me access the newsgroups. Now I just have to find a new reputable ISP.
D. Linus

By: jim

jim — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:44:00 +0000

“Theft is theft, however you look at it…. the other ISP’s will follow suit with this.

As someone who only uses legal downloading sites, I welcome this.”

ok so i found this from another site comment but I just wanted to point out that when you download you do not steal as nothing is taken…. if i was to steal you car and leave it burnt out in a feild i could understand you beeing pissed, but if i walked passed your car and said thats nice ill make a copy and drive my copy then your bitching is only because you don’t feel as exclusive as you think you should…. get over yourself. copying is only enriching the masses not empoverishing the ellite – as (without copying) i would now just not listen to music or use software. so thanks to copying my life has been enriched and has not effected the profits of others – i simply would not have payed for anything i just would have lived without – as i did B4 computers and copying.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:24:11 +0000

and while im hear…. I doubt virgin are gonna offer anythig “not leagle” on a binarys service – the BPI is not that dumb – if there is anything doggie on there they will be able to follow its path very very easly as its their own closed loop system….. Also all those who say move ISPs well I doubt virgin are this dumb either – they know full well that this kind of stratigie or somthing like will be employed very soon (within the year) by all major ISPs in the UK – short of the Gov. making a law like in france.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:16:28 +0000

Em, I have 2Mbit VM conection – anything internet works fine – i mean surfing, you tube, bbc player, all the tv-links stuff … it all comes down real time… If I don’t use downloads like say bit torrent why do I need more than 2Mbit – its a con the only reason we need more than 2Mbit is to do downloads. I find it funny when the BBC keep harking on about ooo people in devon can only get 2Mbit and they should have 8 – who gives a shit it’s well fast – calls for 100Mbit are a joke – thats like 12MB a sec – current HD is only good for about 30MB on a typlical setup…. can we not wait 0.6 of a sec for our BBC news page to load???? Without downloads, free software, free music etc. who wants a pc or the net – only for shopping and checking on my bank statement. They will kill their own buisness.
N.B. Intel, HP, etc dont want this – it will only mean people will have less use for PCs and then they will not sell another for a long time!

By: Badboy

Badboy — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:52:30 +0000

true say that uk people are dum
but indian in uk arent
dude

By: Carisprodol » ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usen

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:12:43 +0000

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By: Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates at IDTorrent Blog

Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates at IDTorrent Blog — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:12:07 +0000

[...] week it was reported by The Telegraph that UK ISP Virgin Media had done a deal with the British Phonographic Industry [...]

By: haha

haha — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:39:45 +0000

to #22 look into your countries presidents, barring ones connection to the Royals…all but one is descended from British Royalty(current being a third cousin of H.M!)…so whos the colony? hehehe…bow beeeatch.

By: Fugazi

Fugazi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:34:01 +0000

Seems, that I missed my calling as a spammer.

By: Fugazi

Fugazi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:17:03 +0000

[quote comment="328035"]I dont get what this UseNet stuff is, but if they are offering something untraceable then thats fine by me.
Also what download amount will make them send out a warning? I have no idea what is considered alot[/quote]

No data is untraceable in the forseeable future. Remember Johnny Mnemonic? He will have existed for exactly that reason. The film is on TPB and the short story by William Gibson is at: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/johnny_mnemonic/

By: egg

egg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:49:03 +0000

Virgin have offerd free usenet since they started, and they still support telewests usenet service, so its not new.

telewest has a 2 day retention and virgin has a 9 day retention.

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:57:02 +0000

[...] week it was reported by The Telegraph that UK ISP Virgin Media had done a deal with the British Phonographic Industry [...]

By: Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates | TorrentFreak

Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates | TorrentFreak — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:28:24 +0000

[...] week it was reported by The Telegraph that UK ISP Virgin Media had done a deal with the British Phonographic Industry [...]

By: Filepromptdotcom

Filepromptdotcom — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:09:04 +0000

Virginmedia customers need to start responding by downgrading to the cheapest package (2mb I believe)

But like the last BPI involvement, it will peter out and die off

http://www.fileprompt.com

By: 70-DAY-RETENTION LIKELY

70-DAY-RETENTION LIKELY — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:47:00 +0000

The listed 7-day binary newsgroup retention most likely only applies to HEADERS.

People who use NZBs will be able to access the full 70-day retention range of Highwinds backend servers.

At least that’s how it is on other ISPs that use highwinds-owned servers for Usenet.