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With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView.

“CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says its owner, Detica.

But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.”

Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.

The technology “analyses anonymous ISP traffic data” to supply information on the total volume of file-sharing,” says Hexus.channel.

“Understanding how consumer behaviour is changing will be an important requirement of Virgin Media’s upcoming music offering and, should they become law, the Government’s legislative proposals will also require measurement of the level of copyright infringement on ISPs’ networks,” story has Virgin’s Jon James stating, going on:

“Detica’s CView technology potentially offers a non-intrusive solution which enhances our understanding of aggregate customer behaviour without identifying or storing individual customers’ data.”

Detica says it “specialises in collecting, managing and exploiting information to reveal actionable intelligence”.

“CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says the company in Consultation on legislation to address illicit P2P file sharing.

But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states flatly, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.”

Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.

One would assume Virgin customers being spied on by Cview would be warned.

But that won’t be the case.

There are no plans to tell the customers whose traffic will be examined, says The Register.

We’ve asked DPI expert Chris Parsons what  he thinks of the system.

Stay tuned.

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