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Virgin Media cable says that the record industry is in charge of your router configuration

boingboing.net » 2008 » June » 15th » Virgin Media cable says that the record industry is in charge of your router configuration

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Will McGree got a letter form Virgin Media (his cable provider) and the British Phonographic Institute (the UK version of the RIAA (of which Virgin -- also a record label -- is a member turns out they're not affiliated with the record label any longer) telling him that he could be sued and disconnected from the Internet because someone used his open WiFi to download music. It wasn't Will -- the … Continue Reading »

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