digital-piracy
Virgin to use DPI file share ‘monitor’ system
With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView. “CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says its owner, Detica. But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.” Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.
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Digital Britain Report says is necessary to ensure “investment in content” is at “socially appropriate levels.” Today the UK govt published its much anticipated Digital Britain Report . Launched in 2008, the project is intended to “secure the UK’s place at the front of digital and telecommunications innovation and quality.” To do this, the steering board for Digital Britain has consulted with experts within and outside of government, and broadband industry regulators. “Digital Britain is a statement of intent and ambition, a commitment to infrastructure and access, and an overdue recognition of the Industrial importance of the Creative Industries,” said Stephen A.
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