Comments on: Virgin to Disconnect Stubborn Pirates, For a Few Minutes

By: 102

102 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:37:37 +0000

They can go to hell, i hope they go bankrupt when the customer’s start moving to another broadband service after being disconnected.

By: Branson Pickle

Branson Pickle — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:54 +0000

97 Jun 17, 2009 at 10:36 by Fled

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.

By: Kye

Kye — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:48:49 +0000

I’m sorry, but what the hell is wrong with some of the commenters here?

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.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:19:44 +0000

Freedom in the UK

fucking sweet

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By: Fled

Fled — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:36:28 +0000

By: Mr Innocent

Mr Innocent — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:16:47 +0000

My contract is up with virgin and i can cancel at anytime without notice which is whats about to happen in the next few days when i move to sky, due to virgin giving my details to some 2 bit Hick of a lawyer who every time you reply to their letters and tell them you are innocent they give you another 21 days ;)
Although i did mention Davenport Lyons and watchdog in the last letter so i think they’re still mulling that over.
I have offered them my computer for analysis though but they are still begging money from me for some reason…
I wouldn’t freely offer them my computer for inspection if i was guilty so i don’t think they are interested in it but they are starting to look as though they are demanding money by menaces which is i think illegal and is a criminal offence unlike the fact i never had their game to begin with. so watch out Mr ACS [f]law because your verging on criminality and demanding money by menaces and threatening behaviour…

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…

By: steve

steve — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:26:35 +0000

I am with Virgin media and if they send me a letter or disconnect my service I will just move to another ISP, they should increase their charges to include a royalty fee for all the greedy companies and allow people to download what they want. They already shape bittorent traffic and have a download cap isn’t that enough they are total wankers.

By: Sumit Khanna

Sumit Khanna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:53:03 +0000

It’s pretty much the beginning of the end of network neutrality. Communication and free speech and too important to be allowed to be constrained by corporate interests.

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.