Virgin Media's legal team are wrong

Alex Brown at Virgin Media.

"We don't have a Fair Use Policy, don't need to and have no intentions
to implement one."

It states "Fair usage policy applies" on both these links.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ductterms.html
http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/whyte.../thefacts.html





Alex Brown at Virgin Media.

"The service is not limited, restricted or capped and we have been
through all our collateral with the legal team who are fully satisfied."

The term restrict and restricted are used on this page.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html

"So, unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information
at peak times, we won't restrict your service"

So, if you do download a large amount of information at peak times, they
will restrict your service.

"What's more, we noticed that when we restricted the speed of the
service"

Gonz wrote:

<rant>

> "What's more, we noticed that when we restricted the speed of the
> service"

", the end of troll's postings to Usenet get cut off. We plan to implement
this across the rest of the network."

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"alexd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> ", the end of troll's postings to Usenet get cut off. We plan to
> implement
> this across the rest of the network."

Not much chance of that happenin... I think you have to be a customer of
theirs for them to be able to do that )

"Gonz" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message

>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>
>"We don't have a Fair Use Policy, don't need to and have no intentions
>to implement one."
>
>It states "Fair usage policy applies" on both these links.
>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ductterms.html
>http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/whyte.../thefacts.html
>
>
>
>
>
>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>
>"The service is not limited, restricted or capped and we have been
>through all our collateral with the legal team who are fully satisfied."
>
>The term restrict and restricted are used on this page.
>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html
>
>"So, unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information
>at peak times, we won't restrict your service"
>
>So, if you do download a large amount of information at peak times, they
>will restrict your service.
>
>"What's more, we noticed that when we restricted the speed of the
>service"
>
>

And by "unusually large amount of information" they mean 350mb.

On Mon, 07 May 2007 00:43:33 +0100, Edster <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"Gonz" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
>
>>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>>
>>"We don't have a Fair Use Policy, don't need to and have no intentions
>>to implement one."
>>
>>It states "Fair usage policy applies" on both these links.
>>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ductterms.html
>>http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/whyte.../thefacts.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>>
>>"The service is not limited, restricted or capped and we have been
>>through all our collateral with the legal team who are fully satisfied."
>>
>>The term restrict and restricted are used on this page.
>>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html
>>
>>"So, unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information
>>at peak times, we won't restrict your service"
>>
>>So, if you do download a large amount of information at peak times, they
>>will restrict your service.
>>
>>"What's more, we noticed that when we restricted the speed of the
>>service"
>>
>>
>
>And by "unusually large amount of information" they mean 350mb.

350 millibits ? That is indeed very small.

jim

On Mon, 07 May 2007 00:43:33 +0100, Edster wrote:

> "Gonz" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
>
>>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>>
>>"We don't have a Fair Use Policy, don't need to and have no intentions to
>>implement one."
>>
>>It states "Fair usage policy applies" on both these links.
>>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ductterms.html
>>http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/whyte.../thefacts.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Alex Brown at Virgin Media.
>>
>>"The service is not limited, restricted or capped and we have been
>>through all our collateral with the legal team who are fully satisfied."
>>
>>The term restrict and restricted are used on this page.
>>http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...t/traffic.html
>>
>>"So, unless you're downloading an unusually large amount of information
>>at peak times, we won't restrict your service"
>>
>>So, if you do download a large amount of information at peak times, they
>>will restrict your service.
>>
>>"What's more, we noticed that when we restricted the speed of the
>>service"
>>
>>
>>
> And by "unusually large amount of information" they mean 350mb.

they might as well piss on our backs and tell us it's raining.

As soon as there is a viable alternative to VM I'm off.

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Dead Paul wrote:

> As soon as there is a viable alternative to VM I'm off.

What don't you like about them ?

Graham

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Dead Paul wrote:
>
>> As soon as there is a viable alternative to VM I'm off.
>
> What don't you like about them ?

I've never seen so much mayhem on the internet before.
All this Virgin Media rippin people off, is everywhere!

Crisis meetings galore! )

Gonz wrote:

> "Eeyore" wrote
> > Dead Paul wrote:
> >
> >> As soon as there is a viable alternative to VM I'm off.
> >
> > What don't you like about them ?
>
> I've never seen so much mayhem on the internet before.

What mayhem ?


> All this Virgin Media rippin people off, is everywhere!
>
> Crisis meetings galore! )

What crisis meetings ? I'm on a Virgin connection right now and it's working
just fine. Futhermore they just offered me the 'L' package for £8.50.

Graham

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>
> Gonz wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" wrote
>> > Dead Paul wrote:
>> >
>> >> As soon as there is a viable alternative to VM I'm off.
>> >
>> > What don't you like about them ?
>>
>> I've never seen so much mayhem on the internet before.
>
> What mayhem ?

You should read the broadband forums.

>> All this Virgin Media rippin people off, is everywhere!
>>
>> Crisis meetings galore! )
>
> What crisis meetings ?

They go something like "What the **** have we done?!" and "That was a
stewpid idea, everyone's mad about it... YOU'RE FIRED!" )

> they just offered me the 'L' package for £8.50.

Retentions are good for them kind of deals.