So whats new. Virgin have been applying the brakes for ages under their FUP(Fair User Policy) this is very handy for Virgin as high end subscribers like mine at £37 per month have there bandwidth moved from the 20 MB to the 2 MB subscribers at £10 per month thus keeping them happy at my expense.Virgins advert states ”Up to 20 MB Connection’ but during the FUP brakes it is then only a 5MB connection ( which is more on the 2 MB..) could this be a legal matter ???”

You need to realise that Virgin Media no longer offer a 2mb package, and haven’t done so for 6th months or more. Do keep up.

I remember torrentfreak being a place for intelligent discussion, and all i see is “Oh, 15 pounds is more than 0 pounds, why would I pay that”. You pay that because MUSIC COSTS MONEY TO PRODUCE.

Don’t think I believe the record companies are doing it tough because of piracy, I know they’re doing it tough because of their own backwards policies and actions…

But I really can’t see what’s unreasonable about a 10-15 pound a month fee for unlimited, non-drm music in a common format.

fucking sweet

ps : I’m constantly impressed by the articles on this site and read it every day, you need an email alert section where we can be alerted to new stories kinda like google does ;) i would subscribe…

Big media needs to learn their artists are overpaid to begin with; priced need to come down and a new view of copyright law needs to be addressed.

What happened to artists just being happy others were listening to their music?

Times they are a changing, but there are so many who just want to hold onto their control.

For the record, I do buy CDs, but only from independent artists at live shows. I’ve got over 100+. Support local and independent music.

tag: irony

Shame they’re the only cable supplier in the UK though

So far proxies have served me well but no doubt they’ll be onto that too soon.

UK is IN BED with America, trust them to be first on something like this.

UK have some dignity and stop allowing the US to interfere….

…or go ahead and apply to become the 51st state and get it over with…

now my 18 month contracts run out and i went to renew it for the new cheaper but higher speed option and they said i have to pay another installation fee of £30!!! even though im a exsisting customer and dont need anything installing

They cap your speeds at peek times also and have the worst customer service iv ever had to deal with

Liars & theives sum them up pretty good

1. Their ToS is flawed beyond belief, I’ve found multiple grammar/spelling errors. look at this:

“You agree to not use the Furk.net Services to:

#3. upload, downloaed, transmit or otherwise—”

DOWNLOAED? what’s that?

Second, look at their e-mail:

the TOS to us at abuse@.

nice period, no domain yet or what?
Same thing goes for their “Contacts”
None of them exist.

Also, their front page advertisement just tried to put a trojan in my computer, and crashed my firefox.. Firefox caught it ofcourse, but still, wtf is that kind of assault, is it because I was trying to contact them??

And also, I’ve searched a few movies, and some fake versions come up, like what I did first was “Monsters vs aliens”, and a whole bunch of DVDRips by aXXo and Diamond came up, and if you click the “This torrent was found on” underneath, none of those sites actually have it.. :S

I call BS.
~Gloom

MTV is included in the 70 free channels so music is no a biggy I guess.

In japan costs $25~$50 and includes:

- 70 channels.
- Movies with no commercials.
- Rental online.
- Premium channels that I think cost something between $1 and $5 and includes channels with the latests movies.

If you take the $50 dollar package you will be paying in total $120($50 for the optical connection + $20 for an ISP + $50 for the Hikari TV)

I think this is going to happen in the U.S. soon as NTT was demonstrating the Hikari TV plataform on CES 2009

These morons do not understand that like the posters above there are other things that cause high bandwith. Like watching TV, or downloading a couple of programs or ISOs (like Linux).

Also, its much more popular for user to encrypt their connections anyway so how the fuck would they know?

Random disconnects are going to do nothing but make the consumer angry, complain and leave ship.

Are they going to become even more wealthy? Could we be having a glimpse of the future? I don’t know, but at least they’re trying and I don’t think they should give up easily if they have a slow start.

Personally, I’d like to see a TV show/movies version of this. Absolute ALL you can eat SD/HD tv episodes/movies downloads completely and absolutely free of DRM restrictions. I’d be willing to pay for something like that, but I would never ever pay for something that has restrictions or limitations. It’s all or nothing when it comes to that.

I don’t even have cable or satellite TV any more because I just download whatever I want for free, without restrictions/limitations, enjoyed at my leisure, and commercial free. And yes, I’d be willing to pay for a service like this.

you know what, if i ever get dragged into court, i’ll just pay the damn 45£ or whatever they are demanding.

Fail burger in paradise.
Fail burger and it aint nice.

I pay them for my internet conection…..

What I do with my conection, is NONE of their business……..

Vm now want to shaft its customer’s, ( for money )……..

SHARE C.D’s with your friends !!!!!!

NONE of HMV’s business…………

Time for a revolt ………..

Leave vm …

I say do it, and feed p2p with all that music later.

http://74.125.127.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.hikaritv.net/services/plans.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhikari%2Btv%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DLDd&rurl=translate.google.co.jp&usg=ALkJrhgLz4n6Jb1wxoGRwrGAroTTAga88Q

Simon Baggs, senior partner at Wiggin, was BPI Acting General Counsel for nearly a year until March 2008.

So basically Virgin & BPI have been in bed together for some time and are connected multiple ways not just through this law/lobbying firm Wiggin. Do not be suprised if Virgin is leading the charge for ISP’s to police the internet, it has much to gain.

Also, according to some reports, Virgin have agreed to blacklist file sharing sites for anyone that signs up to this new service. Try visiting TPB or Mininova and you’ll be blocked.

Who maintains the blacklist? I’ll give you 3 guesses.

How long is temparory? Unless they say it all those bastards are not to be trusted, They may conclude 100 years is temparory when compared with duration civilizations have existed.

£10-15 a month? Fine for those that love Universal stuff that much, but its still too steep for so little. I’m lucky enough that I’ve more or less opted out of popular music. I look to lesser known stuff that you’ll never see in the charts, a lot of which I can find for free.

My broadband is mostly used for 360 gaming, which demands the most of my service. Only other thing apart from that that may strain my connection is my anime DL/streaming or US TV show fix. I stick to mostly anime because its niche media, and less likely I’ll get stung for it. Its just not worth their time.

If they change that price to like £7, considering Universal’s catalogue is only so much, then that would be cool. If £10 included film and music content, then maybe some will bite.Its still a more positive step (beyond the disconnection bs though). It should be interesting to see if other studios etc, do something similar

Overall, people will find a way around this. People love the challenge.