Just to try and get back on topic if possible:
The C/F terms and conditions say the following:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/about/21...and-conditions
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Terms and Conditions
The following Terms and Conditions will apply to you when using Cable Forum [CF hereafter].
You agree to accept and be bound by these terms and conditions as outlined below. Should you reject the following terms and conditions and not wish to be bound by them, then use of the CF website is prohibited to you.
We may update these terms and conditions from time to time without any notice to You. In addition to the following terms and conditions, You agree also to be bound by any guidelines or announcements that are made during your membership of CF. In addition, when using particular sections of CF, You shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms and Conditions.
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Would you expect users of this site to adhere to those T&Cs?
And if they didn't?
For example if someone, did any of the following:
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Post, transmit, upload, email or otherwise make available any content that in doing so infringes upon a trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any party.
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Impersonate any person or entity. This includes but is not limited to, any CF team member or administrator, any Virgin Media employee, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with another person or entity.
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Manipulate or forge headers or identifiers with the intention of disguising the origin of any content that you provide to the cableforum.co.uk web site.
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You'd do something about it right?
And if they kept doing it, no matter how much you told them to stop?
I'm just using this site's T&Cs as an example of a website asserting it's right to control access and use. I'm not citing the examples above and saying that the TalkTalk system breaks those particular terms.
My experience has been that C/F tend to take a fairly robust attitude to enforcement of their T&C's. As do other websites.