PC Pro: News: Illegal downloads: which ISP's customers are the worst?New research has shown that the customers of just three of Britain's leading ISPs are responsible for more than 60% of illegal downloads.
Internet intelligence firm, Envisional, has been tracking music torrent downloads for the past couple of months, analysing the IP address of those downloading and uploading content and matching it to their ISP.
The company traced more than 28,000 unique IP addresses in June alone and found that 22.6% of them were Carphone Warehouse customers, with 21.6% from Virgin Media and 21.2% from BT.
July's figures are very similar, with Virgin Media customers accounting for 22.8% of the total, BT 21.5% and Carphone Warehouse at 21.4%. Envisional concedes, however, the sampling errors could easily account for any difference between the two sets of data.
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