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Virgin Media has announced plans to monitor its own network traffic to look for file sharing activity.
"The company announced on Thursday that it would perform a trial of deep packet inspection technology from Detica to gauge the levels of unlawful file-sharing on its network, on behalf of music companies and other rights holders... the trial, which will cover approximately 40 percent of Virgin Media customers, will use a product called CView by Detica, a BAE subsidiary that until now has dealt almost exclusively with law enforcement and the intelligence services," writes ZDNet's Tom Espiner.
"The system will look at traffic and identify the peer-to-peer packets," explains The Register's Chris Williams. "In a step beyond how ISPs currently monitor their networks, it will then peer inside those packets and try to determine what is licensed and what is unlicensed, based on data provided by the record industry."
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