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Old 24-07-08, 09:20 AM   #1
 
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Providers back net piracy crackdown

The six major Isp have signed up to this BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse more Here

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Re: Providers back net piracy crackdown

Not a real surprise, p2p downloading is absolutly killing them as far as bandwidth costs go and so anything they can do to reduce this they will do.

Although it will be in the application of this that will be interesting and that will be in the following months.
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Re: Providers back net piracy crackdown

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Sky Sign Up With BPI To Help Stop Piracy
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Thanks Newsreader,

Only placed it here as I thought it was just a general chat thread, as it wasn't solely to do with sky

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