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Virgin Media to Begin Throttling BitTorrent Next Summer

By soulxtc

However, Virgin Media boss also says that copyright holders and ISPs should work together to create viable content platform alternatives to illegal file-sharing. Sometime during the middle of next year UK ISP Virgin Media plans to introduce application-based restrictions that will mean that BitTorrent and other P2P users will see their connection speeds throttled to make way for its new 50Mbit/s broadband package. Why? "I think it's an issue of fairness," said Virgin Media boss Neil Berkett. "Broadband has become integral to delivering home entertainment services and with data consumption growing rapidly, we are exploring new ways to enhance our product offering," said a company spokesman. "Part of this involves intelligent monitoring and understanding the way people use our broadband service.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).