2/3 of Irish Users are Under “Three-Strikes” Regime

[Absinthe]

I know none of use on the Arias forum would download anything illegal but do you know someone whose had a "strike" or even 2 or 3 ?. Do they care/Have they been kicked ?. Me just wondering.

[Vigoro]

I use irish people a lot but am yet to recieve a strike :)

[Snakedoc]

Sorry what?

[Absinthe]

Sorry what?
Is there a problem mate ?.

[Vigoro]

You've missed a key word out which means that your post isnt refering to anything at all

[Absinthe]

You've missed a key word out which means that your post isnt refering to anything at all

Enlighten me mate, I'll ask a mod to pull it down

[Andrew Moore]

Makes perfect sense to me (i think)..

I believe it means Irish IPs have a 3 strike rule where as your kicked after the 3rd for downloading illeagally or perhaps prosecuted...?


Andy

[Snakedoc]

I see. I had no idea what this was about. I was thinking of miners strikes lol.

[Absinthe]

Virgin Media looks set to become the first British ISP to crack down on customers who download music and other pirated material, illegally. For some time now, record labels have been lobbying for a “three strikes-and-out” regime that would see persistent offenders kicked off their ISP for downloading pirated music files. BPI, which is a music trade body, is said to be working with Virgin Media on a pilot scheme, which could see customers sent warning letters.

[Sniperdude]

yeah they have done this for years they must send out like 8 letters a year
if they really wanted to crackdown the would remove binaries from their own news groups

in other words their own servers hold just as much pirate stuff as the biggest of torrent sites

[Marv]

Haven't the virgin media newsgroups been closed now or was it just the support section?

I've only ever used it to get a fault fixed.

and no, never had a single strike.

[Sniperdude]

just the support group

[KickButt]

not yet, friend at work did downloaded bioshock 2, fail :(

[VJ]

I use irish people a lot but am yet to recieve a strike :)

you what?
:censored:
:D

[iGoD ReLeNtLeS]

Never had a strike, although did get a letter a couple of months back. I had lost all my data to HDD failure and had downloaded well into 100GB and Virgin Media simply said to move my downloads to after 10pm so its out of their prime-time slot, nothing about what i was downloading :clap good start from VM there.

[Lorem-Ipsum]

I've never had hint of a letter, ......... and I'm not exactly downloading nothing. Oh well.

[Snakedoc]

I would like to see this discussion stay this side of the law. No-one has exactly strayed but lets keep it all above board shall we?

[wonderlust]

I got a letter from Wannadoo back in 2005 complaing that I had averaged 160Gb a month over 3 months.

Threatening that If I continued they would end my contract.

So I left and joined UKonline, more speed less cost :)

[Avatar]

Most services are metered, eg. gas, electricity, length of phone calls, etc. and I can see the danger that in future it may become the norm to be metered on the download usage (I hope not). :|

[Col]

Never had a letter, but then I haven't used torrents in quite a long time. I tried downloading Ubuntu by torrent once, but found it was much faster from the main site.

[M4T VW]

I see. I had no idea what this was about. I was thinking of miners strikes lol.

So did i!:lol:

With this being in General and not network etc:)