Piracy Detector to be Trialled by Virgin Media

Vigin Media, the cable broadband giant of the United Kingdom, has announced its plan to trial a special software tool that would measure the profundity of copyright violation on the internet. The launch of the new tool that may be dubbed piracy detector, would coincide with the launch of its subscription service of music downloads that has been already planned.

The software tool that detects the depth of online piracy, has been named by the firm that had developed it, as the Cview tool. The company that realised the tool is Detica, a technology and business consultancy , and it aims at optimising their tool to help the creative industries as well as the broadband providers in the country to recognise the digital piracy levels in the United Kingdom.

The software tool would enable the broadband suppliers of the country to apply to anonymous high-volume data traffic, advanced analytics to measure the quantum of illegal data downloading without storing or identifying the user data.

Detica, the firm behind the emergence of the new software tool, has claimed that the tool carries the potential to measure unauthorised online filesharing across all networks of internet service providers in the United Kingdom, to realise the collaboration between the government and industry with a view to respond to the illegal downloading challenge that has been mentioned in the Digital Britain report.