I hope you enjoyed using P2P to download your Linux distros because it looks as though the legal users amongst us have just lost out. If you use Virgin Media as your ISP, you’ll be interested to know that they are about to start trials of the 3 strikes rule the government recently detailed in a white paper.

Trialled last year by Tiscali which resulted in a handful of users being disconnected, the 3 strikes rule focuses on re-offending P2P users. But how do they know who is using P2P for legitimate means? Only just recently a TV company in Canada released Hi-Def versions of one of their prime-time shows as a bittorrent in an incentive to trial new methods of distribution. Does this mean these methods of legal distribution, that benefits all, will become a thing of the past? Click here for more information.