Posted on 01/27/2010 11:09:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise
A human rights watchdog has asked the European Commission to assess the legality of software being used to analyse file-sharing in the UK.
The software in question is called CView and will be used by ISP Virgin Media to identify legal versus illegal traffic on its network.
The EC has said it will monitor the use of the software, following a complaint from Privacy International.
Virgin Media countered that the software posed no risk to privacy.
Privacy International has concerns about the software, designed by monitoring firm Detica.
It utilises so-called deep packet inspection, which means that it can identify actual file-names, making it possible to accurately find out what content is legal and what is not.
According to Alexander Hanff, head of ethical networks at Privacy International, use of such software is in breach of current UK law.
"Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) intercepting communications is a criminal offence regardless of what you do with the data," he said.
Mr Hanff said he would file a criminal complaint if Virgin Media deployed CView.
He said the software is similar to that used by ad firm Phorm, which developed technology to monitor individual's web use in order to better target adverts...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
In other news, encryption and stegonography will render this effort fruitlees, all the while expending incredible amounts of political capital.
Download music and get hounded to the ends of the earth, Hold an oil tanker for ransom and get paid.
Homeland security fights music piracy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409611/postsBig Media Meets Law Enforcement at White House; Biden Announces Focus on Intellectual Property Theft
BroadbandandBreakfast ^ | December 16th, 2009 | Andrew Feinberg and Eli Evans
Appearing at the White House complex with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, the directors of the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, and the United States Secret Service, as well as the chief executives of the nation’s largest entertainment companies.
The meeting was followed by a closed-door, roundtable discussion on international intellectual property theft.
Better still re-name a text file as the name of a current popular song, and add an MP3 extension.
Share the text file (I suggest the Constitution) on a file-sharing network, such a BitTorrent.
Inside of a week, you’ll get a takedown notice.
Then counter-sue. . .
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