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After reports said that UK broadband ISP Virgin Media would become the recording industry's copyright cop, Virgin came out denying it, saying that kicking users off the internet was draconian.

However, it later admitted that it would send warning letters to people, based on the flimsy evidence used by the recording industry.

Now Virgin has started sending out those letters, claiming that it's just sending letters and that there is "absolutely no possibility" that it would ban file sharers from connecting to the internet.

That must explain why it sent the first batch of warning letters to people in envelopes that read: "Important. If you don't read this, your broadband could be disconnected."

Full story (and comments) here: Techdirt: Virgin: We Won't Cut Off File Sharers; Sends Envelope Saying 'We May Cut You Off'