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ITV HD World Cup matches to be shown on Sky, Virgin
Pay services sign up Virgin Media and Sky viewers will get to watch ITV’s HD channel on 2 April.… ?
Continue reading »Virgin Media battles privacy campaigners on P2P monitoring
No one’s looking at you, alright? Regulators are mulling assurances from Virgin Media that its planned trial system to monitor the level of illegal filesharing on its network will not harm customers’ privacy.…
Continue reading »EU has doubts as ISP rolls out DPI for copyright enforcement
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.
Continue reading »Virgin trials P2P deep packet snooping
Copyright infringement probe Virgin Media has begun trials of new packet-sniffing software designed to measure the level of illicit music-sharing over its network.…
Continue reading »Virgin Media Testing New File Sharing Detecting System
In November 2009 we reported that new technology could be adopted to monitor illegal file sharing in UK. Now one of UK’s leading broadband providers, Virgin Media, has announced that it could soon reveal new technology that aims at combating file sharing. This deep packet inspection technology (DPI) the company is flirting with is provided provided by Detica and as reported by Times, while it can be used in identifying the types of files Internet users are downloading it can’t be used by companies to pry into their customers’ online activity and grab IP addresses.
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