Monday, 7 July 2008

Virgin Media Clamps Down on Limewire Users

I haven't made any posts for a long time but decided to start up the site.

Bad news if your ISP is Virgin Media and you use Limewire, because they have sent out letters to over 800 people threatening to disconnect their broadband connection if it continues.

Virgin have teamed up with the BPI to track the illegal downloads of copyrighted music. They do this by Virgin sending your IP address to the BPI, then sending you a letter (I'm not sure whether this is just for music or all media in general).

But this tracking is not just for Limewire users, but for any P2P software users that includes torrent software such as bittorrent and utorrent.

Well that sucks.

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