Submission + - Virgin Media warns file sharers (computerweekly.com)
whencanistop writes: "The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) have been signing up to file sharing systems so that they can download files (usually music) in the same way that a normal peer to peer person would. They then grab the IP address and can use this information to prosecute you. So far the only action is that they've passed a list to broadband service provide Virgin Media who are writing to all those people and telling them off. Seems to me that this is a bit like entrapment, but in an online world. I prosecute you for file sharing because I downloaded a file from you must be fairly similar to I prosecute you for trespassing by pushing you into my garden. You might have been intending to go in anyway, but they can't be sure."
