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So what happened?

I realise I'm creating and posting this a bit late (like probably a year late)... more

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Virgin Medai address letter to 'Mr Illegal Immigrant'

The media company sent the letter to a potential customer, addressing it to 'Mr... more

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Record Labels Fear Virgin’s Piracy Solution

In order to combat piracy the UK Internet provider Virgin Media has has teamed up with... more

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The V Festival- Hylands/Weston, Chelmsford, England

The "V" represents the Virgin Group, and began as another means of promoting... more

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Channel 4HD to launch on Virgin Media

As a proud Virgin Media customer I'm glad they're finally pulling their... more

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Holy s**t! 200Mbps broadband coming!

Well, if you live in the tiny part of Kent where Virgin will be trialling it.... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 31st March 2009

Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more

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United Kingdom Talk Thursday 19th March 2009

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on... more

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Virgin Media trialing/throttling weekend speed limits?

Uh oh! Branson's putting the squeeze on! According to reports, this weekend... more

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Virgin Scraps Plans for Legal P2P

Record labels demanded that it prevent file-sharing between subscribers and... more

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Setanta launches on-demand service on Virgin TV

Sports network, Setanta Sports, has launched its video on-demand service on Virgin... more

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ITV & Virgin Media make 1000s of hours of shows available via on-demand

ITV are set to announce a new record-breaking deal with Virgin Media that will see a... more

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Virgin Media to target BitTorrent users

The UK's second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year begin network... more

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Spam attack halts Virgin e-mail

Tens of thousands of Virgin customers have spent four days cut off from, or with... more

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BSkyB bringing "CHANGE" to UK Broadband

BSkyB is at present preparing a new ad campaign that could potentially change the face... more

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Virgin Media: "absolutely no possibility" of legal action or disconnection

After a few weeks of of bad publicity thanks to its policy of working with the music... more

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Virgin Media: ‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers

As the war of words over file-sharing in the UK heats up, the music industry represented by the BPI has been seeking ways to stop an estimated 6 million British citizens from sharing music. It has been pressurizing ISPs to take responsibility for the actions of their subscribers, and demanding that they disconnect those who share unauthorized music, something the ISPs don’t want to do.

To its credit, one ISP, Carphone Warehouse, has refused to comply. Others are working with the music industry and at the forefront of that group is Virgin Media.

Virgin has been receiving quite a lot of bad publicity recently after it was revealed that it agreed to work with the music industry to send out so-called ‘educational warnings‘ to its customers the BPI accuse of file-sharing. Virgin has sent out hundreds of these at the behest of the music industry and they have been dropping through mail boxes up and down the country. The letters come in an envelope and printed on the outside are the words: “Important: If you don’t read this, your broadband could be disconnected” so recipients could be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that, frankly, if they don’t read it, their broadband could be disconnected.

However, Virgin Media told has told Jim over at Newsbeat that the printing on the envelope was “a mistake” and there is “absolutely no possibility” of legal action or disconnection for any recipient of these letters. Nice to know.

Furthermore, Asam Ahmad from Virgin notes that they cannot be 100% sure that the person they send the letters to has actually committed any offense at all. “It is important to let our customers know that their accounts have been used in a certain way but we are happy to accept it may not be the account holder that’s involved.”

He goes on to highlight the problematic issue of incorrectly accusing someone due to a lack of solid evidence: “It could be someone else in the family or someone living in a shared house. It could even be someone stealing wi-fi. We are not making any form of accusation.”

Virgin Media has also stated that it will not hand over the personal details of anyone accused by the BPI “under any circumstances”. This is a good start by Virgin and all credit to them for taking this stance but the reality is that Virgin hands over its subscriber’s details in the blink of an eye when faced with a court order to do so. We know for a fact that they hand over the details of petty file-sharers to the likes of lawyers Davenport Lyons for the alleged sharing of one cheap game costing little more than a single album. However, the BPI has said in the past that it doesn’t want to start taking legal action against individuals.As the war of words over file-sharing in the UK heats up, the music industry... more

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Bus Kong

Commemorating the end of the London Routemaster bus commuter service, "Bus... more

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The Grey Garden

The place we all grow our infinite ideas.

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