Letter From Virgin...

The American FCC just came down on american ISPs monitoring and controlling internet access to p2p networks. Weak judgement though they should have fined the companies.

 

Virgin are probably picking random people to send these letters out too.

because i download music EVERY DAY and like 50 songs a day. and i've had no letter at all.

 

Firstly get Limewire to * off your PC, its the biggest reason for viruses in the * world, also torrents are extremely dodgy so if you are gonna use them you need to download PeerGuardian 2 from Phoenix Labs PeerGuardian 2 and run it whenever you are going to be downloading DO NOT DOWNLOAD WITHOUT IT!!!!!!!!


if your network have contacted you about it you have no doubt downloaded and installed a game or something with an alert tracker in it and will prob get yourself a lifetime ban from all ISP's in fact im surprized you have only received a letter warning as most just get a disconnection notice.

 

was the letter a general letter or a letter stating that they know what your doing,,if general letter i wouldent take much notice

and if its a "we know what your doing"letter,,change your provider ,nosey *,,and dont let them tell u you cant as u have a contract,,you may have a contract but this rule wasent a part of it so they have changed the contract not you

 

Limewires only dodgy if she doesn't have Anti-Virus.

i use limewire and scan everything before i open it.

 

Get yourself on some private trackers, it's the public ones such as Mininova and Pirate Bay that are monitored, not to mention full of infectious files.

 

I read the title and thought you had recevied a letter from 'a' virgin..ahh well

Seriously though, from what it sounds like I definetely d/l more than yourself easily 100's of GB's per month and i'm assuming my housemates do the same we're with Virgin and the only thing they've doen to us so far is to send a letter threatening to implement a fair usage policy on us, they haven't done it yet <touch wood> I wouldn't worry about the letter but I would shop around and get a different ISP.

 

i wouldnt worry about it, i download every day
from movies to song and software
i have at least 9gb of music downloads
and combined 1terra of movies n software

 

tell them you own the originals and you have the receipts, and that your not a peado and to * off

 

Ok, thanks for all the advice guys, still not sure what route to take though...

Is there much hassle involved in changing ISP or is it all fairly simple? Also, anyone got any good recommendations if I was to move. Preferably a company that doesn't follow their users about on the internet like this lol

 

My mate swears by Eircom. There's sites you can put your postcode in and it'll tell you what's available in your area. I can't think of one off top of my head just now, but I'm sure someone will know.

 

there probs watching us

 

lol, im with the same people as Claire, so last night, i typed in on google,,,, * off virgin or i will change ISP, you stupid *, * off richard " noel edmonds " branson.

think they saw it ?

 

That is * up virgin are actually keeping tabs on you! Would it be possible to change internet provider? I am with sky broadband and I have never had any letters and I'm never off limewire downloading stuff!

 

probably got a swat team outside your house now in a ford transat

 

pmsl.

if they send me a letter though, im gonna go to town with them.

* they think they are in all honesty, there a * company.

don't even get sky * one on there * wee box, i remember last year, celtic vs shakhtar was on sky one, and i couldn't see it, all because of virgin.

had to listen to it on Clyde 1 with peter martin, when donati scored, it was legendary.

 

Well mate, we have tictalk to save you now!

 

if i ever meet davie, im gonnae pump him.

what a genius he is.

 

Well are you downloading illegal files?

 

who isnt?:icon_mrgreen: