This new deep packet inspector is an agile monster. It will enable your ISP to begin categorizing and measuring all of the different things you do on the net - web, p2p, voip, email, gaming, etc. This is, of course, an enabler for feeding a charging gateway - charging you different prices for the different things you do, or simply blocking you from doing certain things at all for competitive reasons... Now you can look forward to the day when you will start to receive itemized charges on your internet bill <-- sarcasm.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...i-monster.html
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