More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK

DAM News Staff

14 years ago

More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK.

Virgin Media, one of the UK’s leading providers of television / broadband / mobile / phone services, hasannounced plans to use deep packet inspection technology to track illegal file-sharing activity among around 40 percent of its UK users. Users whose activities are being monitored will not be informed of this fact.

The tech comes from Detica, a company better known for working with government data and intelligence agencies than media files and P2P networks. Their CView product is designed to help put an end to illegal filesharing, and with ISPs showing interest, it’s unlikely that Virgin’s deal will be the last we hear about.

In a lengthydocument on illegal filesharing, Detica outlines how CView can be used to baseline the level of illicit filesharing then continue to measure the same activity as punitive measures are rolled out. The company believes that every ISP has an obligation to reduce illegal filesharing “by an agreed percentage over a period of time,” a goal that can only be achieved through accurate, thorough measurement of user activity – this is the very reason Detica created CView.

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RIP Fair Use – copyright treaty (digitalassetmanagement.org.uk)
ACTA: Deep packet introspection (digitalassetmanagement.org.uk)

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