Not going to answer you in depth popper but again if there are laws against what VM are doing they would also render any use of DPI equipment to snoop inside the payloads of packets illegal.... and I haven't seen any cases brought to bear against any ISPs using this kit by anyone and Europe doesn't appear interested.
Storm, tea cup. ntl have monitored for years. UK government is demanding a reduction in copyright breaking and file sharing, one would imagine that this would require some method of monitoring such sharing.
Still, again, you can bring a lawsuit if you are confident, personally I don't think any of us here are remotely qualified to claim illegality and I'm just running with the common sense view that uk.gov and VM have some rather well paid legal types who've signed off on these things, especially given uk.gov are apparently going to pay some of the cost of this monitoring for ISPs when it becomes law.
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Originally Posted by warescouse
This whole thing in my opinion is a charade to allow this government the facility of blanket spying on the whole of the UK internet without a warrant. Just like the way Councils misused RIPA to spy on dogs fouling pavements and kids parents being followed from their school of choice, so will this be abused similarly by those in power!
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Err just what does Virgin doing this have to do with government monitoring of the Internet? Last time I checked Virgin Media are not 'those in power' and if the government want to monitor VM's network, which they already can via existing lawful intercept, they are hardly going to do a trial on 40% of it under the guise of monitoring piracy, they're going to have staff sign the official secrets act and supply the interconnects to their racks. You've really never been involved in anything to do with RIPA or lawful intercept, have you? It really isn't broadcast when equipment is going live.