A dimple in the chin, a devil within - Irish proverb
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Irish music mafiaa lose a court battle
IRISH CABLE OPERATOR UPC has won a landmark case against the 'three-strikes' punishment of Internet filesharers that is being pushed by the entertainment cartels.
The Irish High Court has ruled against Warner Music, Universal Music, Sony BMG and EMI Records for leaning on UPC to implement the draconian three-strikes system to prosecute filesharers.
According to the Irish Times, Mr Justice Peter Charleton said Irish laws shouldn't be used to enforce Internet disconnection over filesharing. Charleton made the point that Irish and EU legislation are not the same, so three-strikes couldn't be implemented in Ireland.
Charleton felt filesharing was undermining, "a generation of creative people in Ireland" and "is destructive of an important native industry". However, Charleton would not get into bed with the underhand tactics used by big content providers to pressure ISP's to act as their police force.
UPC responded with a statement about filesharing. "UPC has repeatedly stressed that it does not condone piracy and has always taken a strong stance against illegal activity on its network. It takes all steps required by the law to combat specific infringements which are brought to its attention and will continue to co-operate with rights holders where they have obtained the necessary court orders for alleged copyright infringements," it said.
The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) has been pressuring Irish ISPs to conform to its three-strikes scheme. The INQUIRER reported in May that Irish ISP Eircom caved in to pressure to adopt a three-strikes rule after being sued by the music industry. The IRMA has put the wind up Eircom so badly that the ISP had immediately cut off users where it thought P2P activity was taking place.
At the time, UPC had stuck to its guns about refusing to enforce a programme of 'three-strikes' disconnection of alleged Internet filesharers and has now won its day in court. µ
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"irish" isp?
UPC Broadband is a Pan-European Communications company owned by Liberty Global and is active in several European countries
It serves 10 countries in Europe, and is the largest cable operator in countries like Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic.
Founded as United Philips Cable, Netherlands (hence UPC)
And they are assholes in many places, who are all too willing to call filesharers 'scum' and to jump on any censorship bandwagon.
So don't confuse them with good guys or something you want to sign up with.
Thanks to the Inq for bringing us this sweet music to our attention!
All I can say is congratulationa to UPC for winning the IRMA case. Eircom - you bunch of plonkers - you must feel - - well - - like a bunch of plonkers now??
People do please vote with you feet and move your ISP to UPC.
What a Grubby and Greedy industry the record industry has become stooping to every and any tactic to claw their huge profits of bygone years back. It is an industry needs to rethink and get real in its efforts. If the music people cared to offer music to download at reasonable rates – they would not have such large numbers sharing their files. But at a their greedy 99 cent a track what do they expect!!! Have they ever heard of diminishing returns?
Long Live the Free Internet and down with Big Brother Communist era tactics.
You would think the music industry would learn something from Sony Music with the the backlash Sony got from the Rootkit on audio CDs incident.
I have no sympathy at all for a Nasty and Greedy music industry.
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take your copyright and stick it where the sun don't shine mr. frodo
long live pirate bay
Many years of complaints to Eircom resulted in effectively zero disconnections of spammers on the Eircom network, yet they immediately disconnected users accused of file-sharing (not even *illegal* file-sharing) by large American lobbying groups.
So much for Irish independence.