ISP has to pay for music

It seems that the rumour mill is churning out more stories about paid content than ever.

However, this time the idea is that there is a certain ISP who has made a deal where they will be paying for all of the music that flows through their network.

The idea is that Playlouder runs a subscription based music service, which uses deep pack inspection (DPI).

This is supposed to be able to detect any copyrighted material that moves through the network and, as and when this happens, the ISP will have to pay for the privilege.

There is at least one thing that looks wrong here, and it is to do with DPI, and the ability to recognise exactly what is moving through the system and if there is some sort of copyright infringement taking place.

This could work if the ISP is willing to pay up and the technology is capable of doing what they say it can do, but because one ISP does something it will not necessarily mean that others will follow.