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Old 08-05-2008, 16:05   #6089
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by oblonsky View Post
Phorm is illegal because the IP stream carries a variety of types of communications including but not limited to published content, private messages, broadcast content (possibly not port 80) and it is impossible to identify and ignore private messages separate from other content.
hmm, isn't this phorms argument - It doesn't matter that we intercept everything - because we take steps to ignore everything private then it's legal.

Not in my book!

[Edit]
The argument is a red herring - Interception is illegal period.
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