John
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/virgin_media_detica/
Unlucky with your 50meg connection.
Even if that's not used for anything right now you can bet your bottom dollar it will be in the near future.
When the new cards come out and stop the dodgy boxes, along with people not being able to download dodgy torrents I can see the end of virgin media.
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DaveyLC
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Virgin do get seriously exploited though..,. I know quite a few people running multiple modems and cloned STB's lol 
I dont download torrents or use P2P services so not really bothered 
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Cosmo
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Is that not a privacy issue?
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John
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The T&C's will almost certainly have a clause that says they can do what they want.
To add, all these stupid schemes do is expedite the development of a properly encrypted filesharing system then deep packet inspection becomes wasted money.
[Edited on 26-11-2009 by John]
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Cosmo
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I dont think it matters if its in their terms and conditions or not, if its illegal its illegal.
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John
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Naa they'll definitely have something that says they can do it, it's probably their property while on their network.
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Dom
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There was talks of this a few years back on Virgin (then NTL), got shelved due to people kicking up fuss. To be honest, it was always going to happen and i'm suprised more ISPs haven't taken it up. Although like you say john, it'll just mean people going over to SSL Newsgroups or the torrent (possibly HTTP services like rapidshare doing SSL?) stream becoming encrypted, so it's not really preventing it.
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