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UPC Wins
UPC, Ireland's third largest ISP, has prevailed in a court case brought against them by the Irish Recorded Music Association. IRMA had argued that UPC should enforce a three strikes rule against alleged file-sharers on their network using details provided by IRMA without any judicial oversight. Such a system makes the assumption that everyone ( Read more... ) -
Recording Industry Now Owns 63% of Ireland's Internet
The story so far: The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) have successfully persuaded Eircom, Ireland's largest broadband provider (42% of the market), to censor their service and threaten their own customers with disconnection if they are merely accused of illegal file sharing. In effect the recording industry have introduced a de facto three- ( Read more... ) -
Perfect
Judge Cowdroy presiding over AFACT vs. iiNet in the Federal Court of Australia delivered this perfect moment of legal clarity:
The law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another.
Beautiful. We just need an Irish court to use the same reasoning and put IRMA out of our misery here.
