Virgin Media has announced that it will adopt a similar tactic proposed by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and introduce a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy for those illegally downloading. The new policy will come into force with the next couple of months and customers could face possible disconnection if they continue to download after three strikes have been issued:
A spokesman for Virgin Media said: “We have been in discussions with rights holders organisations about how a voluntary scheme could work. We are taking this problem seriously and would favour a sensible voluntary solution.”
The government has already announced that it will enforce legislation by April 2009 unless ISPs introduce their own voluntary systems.
Source: ISPreview
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this is more of a question than a comment - how will they know if what you are downloading is illegal?
ill just move to bt or aol who will be able to download anything so virgin will loose costomers big time?
yeh how wil they be able to know ? unless their gona leave some sort of cookie or spyware on your computer… but then all u would have to do is to download a few free programs like spybot and adaware which removes such nasties ??? well guess time will tell