I am sure they can with DHCP records and deep packet inspection, but this opens up a whole new can of worms. Why do they feel like they have a right to look at the specifics of my traffic to determine if the download is a) music, b) what music it is, c) if that music is a protected work. Sounds to me like they will have to invade our privacy to achieve this. What I do on the net is not their business. And let's not forget, we areinnocent before proven guilty, so proactively monitoring in this fashion HAS to violate some laws. No?
The alternative is to not look at the comntent of each packet and just sending warning to ALL that download MP3s, or use certain protocols like Bit Torrent. Both of which cannot definitively tell them that the download is copyright protected.
I call BS here.
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