Category Archives: P2P
Will Copyright Kill eHealth?
Should we be developing laws the prop up questionable current-day business models of major content producers at the potential expense of wasting billions in public infrastructure upgrades, or should government be taking a longer view of things and start siding with both citizens and their own allocation of infrastructure dollars? Continue reading
Aggregating Information About CView
Over the past little while there has been considerable attention focused on Virgin Media’s decision to trial Detica’s CView copyright monitoring system. This system uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to identify data protocols and likely files that are being … Continue reading
Copyright and the Blank Media Levy
Levies are workable, partial, solutions to the ‘P2P problem’. They can facilitate artists getting paid for their contributions to culture. They do benefit the consumer because it is clear. They do not try to equate one download to one sale, and instead recognize the partial value of downloaded media. The proposed hardware-centric levy does not require ISPs to spy on content as it moves across their networks. Further, as I’ve proposed the aggregation of data points, this levy system does preserve anonymity and privacy. Continue reading
The Business of Infringing Content
Is Digiprotect worried about DPI appliances that are sensitive to copywritten files’ signatures as potentially endangering their operations? Continue reading
