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Crackdown in the Kingdom: Illegal P2P sharers beware
BPI P2P Crackdown
The United Kingdom’s 6 largest ISPs have contracted to deals with the BPI (formerly known as British Phonographic Industry) to monitor and warn customers about the illegal file sharing of copyrighted material. The six contributors include BT Retail, BSkyB, CarPhone Warehouse, Tiscali, Orange and of course, Virgin Media. Between them, the giants provide [...]
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New hyper fast broadband connections coming soon to the UK
BT Fibre Optic Connections
Broadband has been rather quiet in the UK for over 18 months. But things are about to change. British Telecom has proudly announced a £1.5 billion fibre-optic distribution programme which will bring up to 100Mbit connection speeds to around 10 million homes by 2012, four years from now.
Spurred on by Ofcom, the [...]
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UK Virgin Media home broadband get ASA bashing
UKs Virgin Media
Richard Branson’s Virgin Media is an up and coming force within the UK’s entertainment scene. As well as providing Cable TV with TiVo style capabilities and on-demand movies, they offer an assortment of home broadband packages to capture all ends of the market. Known for its controversial adverts and (generally legal) slating of [...]
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