Virgin supports piracy?
Virgin’s a little too honest about the content they’re hosting in their usenet mirrors
While talking with Rich about him just getting Virgin/NTL cable access, we stumbled onto how this opened up the world of newsgroups. To fish the server address out for him, I did a quick Google and found Virgin’s newsgroup information page.
This bit caught my eye:
The rest of the name should give you a good idea of what the topic of the newsgroup is, for instance rec.humor or talk.environment. If it’s got “binaries” in the title, e.g. alt.binaries.movies or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd, it is likely that files like movies clips or music files can be found there.
If you’ve ever used usenet to download something, you’ll probably know that those two areas are filled exclusively with tons of illicit content. Nice of Virgin to give people a poke in the right direction!