BPI Defends Anti-File-Sharing Partnership With Virgin Media

MrSteveSD writes "The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has responded to criticism by Bill Thomson over its collusion with Virgin Media in targeting UK file sharers. BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor personally wrote to the BBC to set things straight, and he asserts that 'it's Mr Thompson, rather than music companies, who is stuck in the past.' Of course, Virgin Media customers who download music and TV legally often find their connections being turned down to unusable speeds due to Virgin's aggressive throttling policy." Mike also points out a blog entry that describes one of the letters received by a Virgin Media customer. In the letter were suggestions regarding the customer's router settings and anti-virus software.

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"Virgin" media

[Adolf Hitroll]

As in Slashdotters, of coure.
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Re:Let the industry die

[Anonymous Coward]

Ohh god no... Then the only movies we would have is the crap that win academy awards. I can only take so many gay tragedy's, lost love, and black and white gay romance movies before I want to shoot myself. We need at least one well regulated movie studio to produce new original action and comedy movies.

The problem is the well regulated part. The studio has no control of the movie once it leaves theaters. There needs to be a sequel ban. Only one sequel allowed and no prequels allowed And the single most important part, NO MORE FULL FRONTAL MALE NUDITY, ITS NOT FUNNY DON'T DO IT!!!