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Some clearly haven't read the article properly. It's not individual customer bandwidth data that's being monitoed and transferred to a 3rd party as inferred, bu
by daniam 5y ago
Some clearly haven't read the article properly. It's not individual customer bandwidth data that's being monitoed and transferred to a 3rd party as inferred, but data on which endpoints are the source of most of that bandwidth usage on the basis they may be pirate IPTV sources, partliularly when they spring up at a similar time to a big event starting.
And it's no big secret, Sky announced to the world they were doing it back in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDNw3t-2euU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDNw3t-2euU, video described as "A fascinating look at how Sky Broadcasting in the U.K. is using Google Cloud to combat piracy of licensed sports content to defend the rights of copyrighted content owners everywhere and reclaim lost revenue in the process."
- tyingq 5y agoSo it is individual customer bandwidth, just not ALL individual customer bandwidth. That's only slightly less objectionable. It's also pretty clearly just a correlation, and not proof.
- daniam 5y agoErm, no. Read it again.
- daniam 5y agoBetter still, watch the video I linked to.
- daniam 5y agoIt's a legal requirement for UK ISPs to block these pirate sites for their customers. The IPs identified are further verified as licensed content abusers before any further action is taken.
- tyingq 5y agoI was reading your comment, this part: "but data on which endpoints are the source of most of that bandwidth usage on the basis they may be pirate IPTV sources, partliularly when they spring up at a similar time to a big event starting" Which sounds like a correlation to me. "Source of most that bandwidth...when they spring up at a similar time"
- daniam 5y agoSoeey, a correlation to what exactly? What is looked for is high bandwith on the core network all coming from a single or multiple external sources, not individual users bandwidth.