Results tagged “bittorrent” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

Virgin today announced that it was launching the UK's fastest broadband service.

And they used the traditional pr method of launching hi-tech items. Yes - get a pretty girl in a dress to do it.

I suppose there's the connection, faster internet, pretty girls....go on, you work it out.

Stevens, in a strapless red dress, held symbolic fibre optic cables to launch the Virgin Media 50 megabits per second (Mb) domestic service.

Apparently she uses the internet every day for 'business' to keep in contact with friends.

And in a quote not at all concocted by a Virgin PR person she said: "I use the internet every day so broadband is essential, and the faster the better as it means I can fit more into my day."

At the same time CEO Neil Berkett said that new anti-piracy traffic monitoring equipment will come on line.

Specifially they are going to have a go at BitTorrent traffic, saying it unfairly hogs bandwidth from other users.

Illegal downloaders face having their speeds throttled back.

Below - Rachel Steven looks for something in the distance at the launch.