Net firms in music pirates deal

[Shades40]

Six of the UK's biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online.

The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music.

Hard core file-sharers could see their broadband connections slowed, under measures proposed by the UK government.

BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522334.stm

I use this program phoenixlabs.org/pg2/ though it won't help against this law.

[earl]

I use torrents. No peer to peer. Too slow. Besides, you don't even need P2P sites or software to get music if you really knew how to work google. You can get around 60-70% of the stuff you want, for free, with direct downloads. Even really obscure stuff in various genres. Worst case, you can sign up to a dodgy Russian site, and download whole albums for a euro. you can use www.filestube.com to look through upload sites for what you want.

Got a 20Mb line there recently. Should have the entire internet downloaded by the end of the year!

[Shades40]

Irish Robinson says downloaders are as bad as being gay so wer'e fked

[Blue Angel]

Irish Robinson - Jesus she's seen the light and become republican then? Only problem is who will tell her we don't want her?

[Shades40]

Yea she's now a gay republican who owns an abortion clinic.

[earl]

Yeah, some ISP's do a thing called bandwidth throttling at peak times. If they see that you are using a certain port or protocol, they might limit your bandwidth. This can depend on the contention ratio of the line you are on and how busy it is at that time.