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Well, I tried registering the SIM card for my new Motorola Razr2 V8 that I got at a nice refurbed price from Orange, but turns out that after about 10 calls to the PAYG section of whichever call center was available (usually the Indian one), I finally get told it's a contract SIM. Every other time I was just passed on to other people who would also take the SIM number only to tell me it isn't an Orange SIM and for me to hold on while they fuck off and leave me until I either hang up or they fall asleep fapping to whatever pron they have up on their screen. I eventually get pissed off with all this and tell the guy that it would be so helpful if they could explain why the SIM isn't being recognized as a Pay As You Go card and not just the usual "this isn't registered as an Orange SIM/phone number", he says that it's not a PAYG SIM and so after 2 weeks (I was on holiday last week), I get the response I was looking for. That's when I decide to have a lo...

Apparently, the wife had a phone call from Virgin Media who is our ISP, to say that we have been downloading music. The funny thing is, nobody in our household has been downloading music in the last .. at least 4 months, so where they get the idea that just because you download something through P2P means it's illegal and is therefore music, I don't know. I'm not sure if US TV programs fall under one of the categories that BPI covers, but if not, what can they do about it if I decided to use a torrent client to download something that isn't music? Or, what if I downloaded legal music via torrent? Are they going to call again and send out a second warning because I've been using peer-to-peer technology legally? I'm not the first and they're apparently calling various others that have been using P2P, whether legally or not, so this is where things are going to get interesting. If they could give me a time and/or date of when I was 'caught' using peer...

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