Oh, dear. Virgin cracking down on illegal downloads

[owl]

So alledgedly Virgin Media (my ISP) is making moves to implement the 'three strikes and NO INTARWEBZ' policy on illegal downloading..

Woez! How shall I get my Numb3rs fix? There is about an 18-month lag time from it being shown in America and it being shown here (and then it's on ITV3 late at night, sigh). theoriginalspy, I hope that you keep up with the recaps :-/ *clings to theoriginalspy like Charlie to his laptop*

Also BSG, although the lag time is not horrendous. I can wait. Yeah, really.

Incidentally, I first got fannish about both these programs while I was watching downloaded episodes. I'd seen them on television, but they were just something that I watched when they were on (like Diagnosis Murder in university, but much less embarrassing). Guess what I went out and did once I'd got hooked on the downloads? Yeah, I bought the DVDs. So everybody won! The companies got £££ and I got new sandpits! Gah!

(I never download music or films. I have my own source of free music; it's called 'baby brother who gets paid to go to school and hence has money to burn'. Don't know what we'll do when he goes to uni next year, though.)

Comments

Re: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company!"

[owl]

Yeah, I could live with that situation all right, I don't download much, and like I said it's only stuff that we wouldn't get over here till later anyway.

Re: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company!"

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I suppose that I can live with it too, actually... it's more "the principle of the thing!"