Are you happy being spied on by Virgin media?

wilsky

wilsky

wilsky

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As part of the package, Virgin are planning do DPI of your traffic, to ensure you are not p2peering their music. Repeat offends could face the ban (suspension) hammer!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/15/virgin_universal_unlimited/

If you don't download music, what are your thoughts on being potentially spied on. Or what happens if you get a warning despite not doing anything. This is NTL remember, they can't even get your bill right half the time!
 
well i for one will definitely not be re signing up to there service. It hasn't been that bad but still. I don't like the way they do things. +1 on that bill thing. The tv service is kind of good tho with the on demand etc
 
Unless they're working with GCHQ then their DPI (deep packet inspection, for GD laymen ;)) is going to have fun when confronted with SSL encryption...
 
Skyfall said:
I'm confused.
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It just means that if you get caught uploading the MP3s you have downloaded for free then they will come after you. They don't need to do anything more than they are already doing to try and catch filesharers, only they have the cooperation of VM to restrict your service if you get caught.
 
Do Virgin currently block p2p? Or do they cut customers accounts if they catch you? Im signing up with them next month for a shared flat is all...
 
Would be interesting to see what happens, spotify uses p2p for users to listen to music. How would VM see this?
 
With Virgin
Very happy

Truely don't care what they think they can investigate, if doing nothing wrong, nothing to hide. Whining, moaning privacy campaigners often are hiding things.
 
From what I make out from that article: VM are doing business with Universal Music. They will offer for a flat rate p/month a certain/unlimited amount of tracks for you to download for a small charge.

If you are uploading those tracks then you are stupid to do so.

Just for clarification, would re-encoding the tracks to a different bit-rate (it will prob already be 128kb/s), or to a different format, would that bypass the alert during DPI?
 
Would using Steganography to hide songs encoded using an obscure file format inside image files given names created using a random number generator and then encrypted with 256Bit AES and sent through a tunneled proxy over an SSL encrypted connection be detected by VM or would that bypass their alert?
 
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