Talks between Ofcom and Detica, a data gathering and processing company, could result in the adoption of a new system developed by the latter to help identify the illegal P2P traffic on broadband networks The UK’s concern with illegal file sharing has taken various forms. From Lord Mandelson’s plans to disconnect copyright infringers to the latest option that Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK) is considering – to use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology developed by Detica and called CView to monitor file sharing (P2P) traffic on broadband ISP networks and asses the level of online piracy among customers. Sources say that rather than being used against individual users CView could have the role of measuring the level of illegal downloading on a network, data which is quite precious for copyright owners.

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New Technology Could Be Adopted to Monitor Illegal File Sharing in UK