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EU antitrust enforcers turn their eyes upon Google
The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s business activities after complaints from three European companies. The companies, which offer services similar to Google’s, believe that Google actively demotes their rankings in its search results because they are competitors. Google insists that it’s just offering what users want: useful search results.
Continue reading »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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