File sharing. Who me?

So, Virgin has started sending out letters to a few hundred file sharers who the BPI believes have been downloading illegal tracks. One such guy who received such a letter, Will McGree, seems rather aggrieved at the situation.

We’re baffled as to where they’ve got their information from.

Really? Someone’s who planning to complete a masters in computing doesn’t realise that the BPI might trace an IP address?

I was under the impression that I paid Virgin Media money to keep my internet connection protected and safe.

Oooh, what’s that sticker on your laptop, GPL free software. Anybody would think you were quite tech savvy and had at least a basic idea that people can leech your connection. Oh, but then there’s more, what’s this on your twitter page?

Am I in Starbucks drinking Starbucks coffee but using the McDonald’s free Wi-Fi? You bet your *ass* I am.

So you seem quite happy to steal other people’s connections, but hey when the balls on the other foot…..

And finally, it seems he plans to encrypt his traffic shortly, according to his blog.

In September, we’re building a home server in our flat. It’ll be a Tor node so that finally Virgin Media don’t need to worry themselves with what’s flowing through their routers. It’s just data. Like I paid for.

Anybody would think you had something to hide……

Update 11/07/08: “My updates are protected”; he’s now hidden his status, definitely hiding something!

Update 12/07/08: The guys over at football365 have done a Sterling job picking apart what a loser Will McGree is, but its almost too easy, a quick google search reveals a whole wealth of stuff:

915resolution was something MCNLive Cherbourg (two versions back) kept offering me upon loading KDE. (source)

Yeah, you know they kept offering me 915 too but I’m more a 1028 man myself.

Oh yeah, that’s Will’s girlfriend; what a stunning example of the female of the species. And just to comply with the attribution requirement, that’s from the ‘Laura and Will’s photostream‘ everybody.

Why give me a crappy 48kbps MONO(!) RealAudio file when I have plenty of bandwidth to download a high-quality Ogg Vorbis file. Heck, make it a torrent seed (source)

So you do use P2P downloading, but only for legal downloads, of course

Looks like he also went crying to Twitter over a fake account. Mummy, mummy, he took my lollipop………

Will has no friends (source)

Why doesn’t that surprise me?

I’ve often had moments like this where I wonder how wide a profit margin is.

Example: Subway – Two Can Dine For £5.99
- My 6” teriyaki – £3.10
- Laura’s Melt – £2.80
- Two cookies – £0.50 each (ish)
- Two large drinks – £1.29 ish each

So how in hell’s breakfast are they able to offer me all that for £5.99? (source)

I’d stop worrying if I were you, I suspect it’s the only time Laura ever gets something as big as a 6″ from you

~ by dodgyreception on July 7, 2008.