Virgin Media can’t recognize torrents

Apparently, the wife had a phone call from Virgin Media who is our ISP, to say that we have been downloading music.

The funny thing is, nobody in our household has been downloading music in the last .. at least 4 months, so where they get the idea that just because you download something through P2P means it’s illegal and is therefore music, I don’t know. I’m not sure if US TV programs fall under one of the categories that BPI covers, but if not, what can they do about it if I decided to use a torrent client to download something that isn’t music?

Or, what if I downloaded legal music via torrent? Are they going to call again and send out a second warning because I’ve been using peer-to-peer technology legally? I’m not the first and they’re apparently calling various others that have been using P2P, whether legally or not, so this is where things are going to get interesting. If they could give me a time and/or date of when I was ‘caught’ using peer-to-peer technology (and I’m guessing it was within the last week or two), I could tell them what I downloaded.

Is this going to affect programs that use P2P legally? Programs like xfire use a peer-to-peer distribution method, so if I download a demo or something through the service and then that demo is ‘distributed’ by me, will VM contact us again to say that they’ve detected such activity?

They don’t know what I’ve downloaded and the only thing I can figure is that they base it on the fact you use a torrent program to download something, regardless of what it is you download and if that’s the case, many customers aren’t going to be happy and will migrate to another service where they don’t have such a stupid regime. If they base it on the tracker used, well that’s just plain retarded since, funnily enough, even The Pirate Bay has some legal torrents.

DSOrganize 3.2 available

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robert marshall (ace.man74)

I haven’t felt like blogging this month as you can probably tell and although I had a few ideas to put a few posts in before the month is out, I just couldn’t be bothered.

This post is just to tell Robert Marshall to stop being a dick and get your own email address.

Dude, have you wondered why your eBay account hasn’t been confirmed yet? Haven’t you wondered why you didn’t even received the emails to confirm your account? That would be because you used an address you don’t have access to, just like around 5 other morons before you.

While I’m here, what’s with random people adding me to MSN? I get people adding me, then messaging me asking who I am… who the fuck do you think I am? Are people really that stupid to say, “Yeah, my MSN address is <obviously not theirs, so why give it?>, add me and we’ll chat!”?

I could no doubt do one of these posts every couple of weeks at least about people who have tried using my Hotmail for something, but I didn’t for the last couple of occassions, not sure if any of them have found their way to here to read any previous posts, but you never know and maybe if I continue, someone may finally get the message.

Well, Robert Marshall, seems you won’t be getting that pack of Xbox 360 games you wanted to bid for since you were too stupid to realise you didn’t use an email address you have acccess to…

Is this for real..?

An article on the Times website is saying that apparently, The Sims has a sociable future…

The Sims prepare for a sociable future - Times Online

I left a comment, but since there’s a chance it won’t be seen or approved (I didn’t use my proper name and email in the form), here is the reply I left..

Is this from a recent source? Like, as in today? Have they (EA) completely forgotten about The Sims Online or as it was supposed to be relaunching as, EA Land?

This makes no sense at all, yes there was news not so long ago about EA aquiring some kind of social team, but if they think that The Sims never had an online presence, they’re very much mistaken.

The Sims Online has been running since late 2002 and is still running now until August 1st when EA are closing it down, apparently due to funds not being available for the next fiscal year. Are gamers being fobbed off with usual corporate rubbish? What EA doesn’t realise is that the future of social mmo’s like The Sims, Second Life, There, etc is all about custom content where the players create their own items to either use or sell in-game, but apparently, EA thinks gamers don’t want that… yet according to this article, they do.

Make up your minds EA, first you say gamers don’t want it, then you say they do. If EA is creating a ‘The Sims 2 Online’, just say so instead of upsetting thousands of people by shutting down something that has lasted six years and was actually starting to grow in population even more.

Anyway, no point ranting about it since I haven’t played The Sims Online for around 11 days, but this is going to confuse a lot of people that don’t know where they stand with EA or TSO/EA Land.

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R4 Kernel 1.18 released

It’s a couple of days old, but I checked the R4DS site on the off-chance that there was an update and lo and behold, 1.18 was available.

Update R4 v1.18 kernel 2008-4-24
1） Solved 2203, 2219, 2240, 2250 problem

I’m guessing these are more savegame solutions for commercial games :/

Anyway, as usual, I’ve uploaded it to a nice fast host for you to download. Remember, just copy the files over to the root of the R4 (Micro SD card) and overwrite all, there are no themes in there, so those won’t be overwritten. If it doesn’t work, I really can’t help you as it’s simpler than Paris Hilton.