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Anonymous Takes Down Virgin Media Website To Protest The Pirate Bay

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:40:35 +0000

Hacker group Anonymous has taken down Virgin Media’s main website on Tuesday to protest the company’s recent cut-off from The Pirate Bay. Anonymous took down Virgin Media’s website with a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which takes down a computer or network by saturating requests to a target machine with external communication requests to the point where the servers cannot respond to legitimate traffic. This is what Virgin Media had to say:

Our website, virginmedia.com, has been the subject of denial of service attacks so we took the site offline for a short period of time. We’re aware some groups are claiming the attacks are a result of the recent High Court order which requires ISPs to prevent access to The Pirate Bay.

As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders but we strongly believe that tackling the issue of copyright infringement needs compelling legal alternatives, giving consumers access to great content at the right price, to help change consumer behaviour.

Virgin Media Bringing Free WiFi to London

Riley Kennysmith — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:05:28 +0000

Virgin Media‘s CEO Neil Berkett announced in an address to investors that the company plans on providing free WiFi in London. As Engadget comments, “with only four percent market share, Virgin could certainly handle the extra traffic.” Other entities have made similar promises of municipal WiFi for London in the past, but the plans have yet to succeed.

The network would provide 0.5Mbps for free, while Virgin service subscribers would have access to speeds up to 10Mbps.

Virgin Media Joins The Bebo Open Mobile Initiative

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:00:32 +0000

AOL sent out a press release today stating that Virgin Media has joined the Open Mobile initiative set up by Bebo, the social network that was acquired for $850 million in March 2008. The Open Mobile initiative is a way for mobile operators, developers, and manufacturing companies to build mobile versions of the Bebo social networks with their brand on it.

As part of the agreement, Virgin will be creating the Bebo Open Mobile Internet website with Virgin’s brand on it and they will also be putting bookmarks for Bebo on the pre-releases of their devices. Virgin customers will be able to easily access Bebo’s mobile services right out of the box.

“Virgin Media’s decision to embed Bebo in their customer experience plays to both of our strengths and joins two great brands. In partnership with Virgin Media, we will be able to deliver great mobile content to more users in the UK,” stated Sean Kane, VP of Mobile at AOL People Networks.

[via gomonews]