RSSIrish ISP to block P2P and music sharing sites
By Tim Conneally | Published February 24, 2009, 12:29 PM
Eircom will be blocking the Pirate Bay and sites of that nature under threat of legal action from the Irish Recorded Music Association.
In late January, Irish ISP Eircom adopted the now famous "graduated response" to illegal file sharing pioneered by the French, where suspected file sharers are given three strikes and then cut off from the Internet entirely. Now, Ireland's Sunday Business Post reports that Eircom is working with the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) to block all music swapping sites from general user access. The ISP's move was reportedly made under threat of legal action from IRMA.
Naturally, with all the attention being given to The Pirate Bay, the Swedish torrent site was given "public enemy number one" slot, and was the only site listed by name in IRMA's letter to Eircom. A blacklist of similar sites is soon to follow.
"If you buy something, do you own it?"
Define it, and you'll have your answer.
If you can't own music or movies (videos), they shouldn't be for sale, Period.
Let them rot on their shelves,and let their artists be forgotten, forever.
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|"Irish ISP to lose 90% of customers" would be a more accurate title.
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|In times, gone by, when you would have used ‘Cassette’ tapes to record music, used ‘VCR’ tapes to record movies and t v programs.
We all shared, freely.
I want the freedom so as to be able to share online with my friends and family.
A side note, I subscribe to a cable company for t v and internet access, my thought is “if I record a movie from the television onto a CD/DVD, and take this CD/DVD, to my family and friends homes, Is my TV service provider guilty..............?
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|"We all shared, freely."
No, you shared illegally. It was just done in such small quantities that it fell below the radar.
Compare that to teenagers across the country sharing *everything* under the sun.
Sharing is great. Misrepresenting the facts isn't.
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|I like that... Recording a purchased tv show or movie from your cable subscription. Putting it on a cd/dvd for viewing later with your family. Isnt that just a hard copy of PVR??? Whats the difference?
Great post!
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|"No, you shared illegally. It was just done in such small quantities that it fell below the radar."
Or maybe there was no way to track this information hence the problem didn't exist. Sometimes I feel the music industry misrepresents the problem as a new issue when in fact is was there all along. Technically recording shows off of TV is illegal too and yet there wasn't much of a squabble of that. Now that we have digital mechanisms to disable such features it's a problem.
Technology has allowed to do the same things in a new way but now new information about what we do has basically become a weapon against us.
I certainly don't advocate sharing everything under the sun as a right but sometimes there has to be a little common sense about it all.
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|People have been doing it for decades. The problem with cassettes, was that it was impossible to track, expensive to track (unless it was a counterfeit operation, they wouldn't bother), and the quantities/sharing was minimal. You might make a copy for one friend. With TV, it was even less sharing, and more about personal copies (which were much lower quality than what could be bought in stores).
Now, it's easy to track, and the sharing has spread from personal user and maybe a friend or two to literally being able to and often sharing the content with *thousands* of people.
Things have changed, thus have their actions regarding it. They never ignored it, there just wasn't a whole lot they could do about it back in the day.
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|oh yes, because this is really going to stop people from visiting TPB if they wanted to. Lots of proxy sites, not including translation sites, will give you access to blocked web sites.
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|might as well block any and all sites that allow anybody do anything... maybe the Irish are going the way of communism and media censorship? That's a twist i bet nobody saw coming...
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|You're right. I was reading a piece by an Irishman on another website. He was giving us an update on his government's new bunch of gun control laws about two weeks ago. This is also part of creating the communist or a fascist police state, right along with official censorship and a government controlled propaganda radio and TV network to treat the people like a bunch of mushrooms...
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