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EU has doubts as ISP rolls out DPI for copyright enforcement
Nate Anderson
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technica
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Back in November, UK ISP Virgin Media announced that it would
start using deep packet inspection gear to start riffling through
user traffic. The goal was to search some of the leading P2P
networks in order to measure copyrighted material passing through
them. Today, the European Commission indicated that the plan
is problematic, and it will keep a close eye on the trial.
In the middle of last year, Virgin announced a stunning music
plan: unlimited streaming and downloads of non-DRMed music files
from Universal (with deals hopefully to come from other labels).
The music would be part of your ISP subscription fee, and downloads
would be yours to keep forever.
After giving Virgin permission to use the "carrot,"
though, labels wanted a bit more "stick" applied to
users who continued to infringe copyright. Virgin had no real
way to measure the effective rate of copyright infringement
by its users, so in November 2009 it turned to Detica, a unit
of European arms contractor BAE systems.
Detica developed a product named CView that, in the words of
the company, "applies high volume, advanced analytics to
anonymous ISP traffic data, and aggregates this information
into a measure of the total volume of unauthorised file sharing."
Full
article here
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