Comments on: One Virgin Music Store Dies. And Another Opens. http://technologizer.com/2009/06/15/one-virgin-music-store-dies-and-another-opens/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pond http://technologizer.com/2009/06/15/one-virgin-music-store-dies-and-another-opens/comment-page-1/#comment-18615 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:00:35 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=13296#comment-18615 Harry, the answer to how Virgin knows your online activity is written in the first paragraph of the press release: this is a service only available to their broadband customers.

Universal must get a cut or kickback from Virgin on the monthly ISP fees it charges.

To get around this, file-sharers would have to have another ISP to do their file-sharing.

But then would Virgin ISP be able to tell the difference between P2P sharing Linux distros and sharing music files?

]]> By: Augustus http://technologizer.com/2009/06/15/one-virgin-music-store-dies-and-another-opens/comment-page-1/#comment-18471 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:17:27 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=13296#comment-18471 Perhaps Virgin has realized that while good manners demands that a corporation rant about piracy, it isn’t a real concern. It’s like the cold war – you were expected to be anti-red, you weren’t expected to go and outfit your own army.
People who have computers usually pirate at least some music, but I’ve never heard of anyone canceling their cable because of this – maybe Virgin sees that piracy is always going to be there and that a generous and open business model will make it irrelevant. Or maybe – as with other unavoidable facts of existence – they will find a way to incorporate it into their business model.
Business that can deal fairly and see reality? It could happen.

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