Editing Deep packet inspection (section)

===Copyright enforcement===
ISPs are sometimes requested by [[copyright]] owners or required by courts or official policy to help enforce copyrights. In 2006, one of Denmark's largest ISPs, [[Tele2]], was given a court injunction and told it must block its customers from accessing [[The Pirate Bay]], a launching point for [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/13/Danish-ISP-prepares-to-fight-Pirate-Bay-injunction_1.html|title=Danish ISP prepares to fight Pirate Bay injunction|website=[[InfoWorld]].com|author=Jeremy Kirk|date=2008-02-13|access-date=2008-03-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214235115/http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/13/Danish-ISP-prepares-to-fight-Pirate-Bay-injunction_1.html|archive-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>

Instead of prosecuting file sharers one at a time,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9617239.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070814234157/http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9617239.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-08-14|title=Eircom and BT won't oppose music firms|website=enn.ie|author=Matthew Clark|date=2005-07-05|access-date=2008-03-12}}</ref> the [[International Federation of the Phonographic Industry]] (IFPI) and the big four record labels [[EMI]], [[Sony BMG]], [[Universal Music]], and [[Warner Music]] have sued ISPs such as [[Eircom]] for not doing enough about protecting their copyrights.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080311-year-of-filters-turning-into-year-of-lawsuits-against-isps.html|title="Year of filters" turning into year of lawsuits against ISPs|website=[[Ars Technica]]|author=Eric Bangeman|date=2008-03-11|access-date=2008-03-12}}</ref> The IFPI wants ISPs to filter traffic to remove illicitly uploaded and downloaded copyrighted material from their network, despite European directive 2000/31/EC clearly stating that ISPs may not be put under a general obligation to monitor the information they transmit, and directive 2002/58/EC granting European citizens a right to privacy of communications.

The [[Motion Picture Association of America]] (MPAA), which aims to enforce movie copyrights, has taken the position with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) that network neutrality could hurt anti-piracy techniques such as deep packet inspection and other forms of filtering.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9746938-7.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129180811/http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9746938-7.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 29, 2013|title=MPAA: Net neutrality could hurt antipiracy tech|website=[[CNET]] News|author=Anne Broach|date=2007-07-19|access-date=2008-03-12}}</ref>