The big picture here, imho, is that if VM know when customers are downloading stuff they shouldn't be they can probably be legally coerced into stopping them from doing so.
To be fair it's sadly inevitable. We've been giving 'The man' the finger since Napster, eventually he had to tire of it and stick the finger where the sun doesn't shine.
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Originally Posted by popper
no IF its holding data created by the paying user or the web site they have asked for a personal copy for personal use and is tracable to an IP address and or account holder, to then be supplyed to a 3rd party for commercial gain by making an unauthorised copy of the original or a derivative work, and then calling it anonymised then it is legally dubious.
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That applies purely to Phorm though and is nothing to do with what VM are suggesting here?