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Originally Posted by Florence
We wil continue until phorm admit defeat and leave the shores if Phorm stays and some ISPs deploy then I say leave the ISP then phorm has nothing to phormulate into clickable adverts.
Would be nice if Mark.W and a few BT bods came over to meet us we have a few questions they might be able to help us with. Perhaps someone could hand out the olive branch asking them to join us in a discussion on ethics, privacy, human rights, freedom of choice, webdesigners rights to not conphorm.. would bring a sparkle to the thread infact now I am a BT customer maybe I should sign up  |
We can't even get them to answer questions on the BT forums anymore so I don't think they will come here. But we do invite them....
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Originally Posted by Digbert
This is what BT have been doing for ages with their Ellacoya kit. Deep packet inspection for QoS on BT Vision and VoiP and for managing traffic shaping.
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The difference there is that there is a valid legal argument that the inspection relates to the provision of the service - VOIP (BTBroadband Talk) or On Demand BTVision. I'm a customer of both with BT.
And I would even go part way on the issue of P2P - if you share a contended pipe with a few rabid filesharers it is quite welcome if their traffic is shaped, or they get throttled a bit during peak hours just so the rest of us can get a reasonable proportion of our theoretically available bandwidth. That too can be justified on the basis of managing the network to provide the service.
But deep packet inspection just to enhance my life with targeted ads? I can't see how that is necessary for the functioning of the ISP service.