Comments on: Record Labels Sue Irish ISP, Demand Music Piracy Filtering

By: 300 Irish Internet Users Wrongfully Receive First Strike Notices | Sovereign Independent

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:05:04 +0000

[...] strikes law in Ireland for years. In fact, in 2008, the record labels went to the extreme length of suing Irish ISP Eircom in a bid to get them to implement a three strikes law. In 2009, the ISP folded to pressure and agreed to implement a three strikes law for its users. [...]

By: 300 Irish Internet Users Wrongfully Receive First Strike Notices

300 Irish Internet Users Wrongfully Receive First Strike Notices — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:00:59 +0000

By: Irish Music Industry Targets Mobile Operators for “Three-Strikes”

Irish Music Industry Targets Mobile Operators for “Three-Strikes” — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:42:45 +0000

[...] IRMA first began targeting ISPs back in April of 2008 with Eircom, Ireland’s largest ISP with 40% of the broadband market. The [...]

By: Irish ISP Begins Voluntary “Three-Strikes”

Irish ISP Begins Voluntary “Three-Strikes” — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:16:12 +0000

[...] in April of 2008, the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) filed a lawsuit against Eircom in order to try and hold it responsible for copyright infringing customers. The ISP [...]

By: Irish Judge: Voluntary “3-Strikes” is Legal

Irish Judge: Voluntary “3-Strikes” is Legal — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:53:00 +0000

[...] was back in April of 2008 that the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) decided to sue Ireland’s largest ISP Eircomin order to hold it responsible for the copyright infringement of [...]

By: Record Labels Targets More Irish ISP for “Three-Strikes”

Record Labels Targets More Irish ISP for “Three-Strikes” — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:07:32 +0000

[...] into instituting a "three-strikes" system without legislation since last March when it first took Irish ISP Eircom to court to force it to begin filtering illegal P2P downloads of copyrighted [...]

By: manakazero

manakazero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know what the laws in Europe are but the U.S. has network neutrality and Comcast is in trouble for blocking bittorrent.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Unless I’m mistaken the net neutrality debate is still ongoing. Anyway if they do win this case I hope people cry foul corporations shouldn’t be messing with the internet to mold it in their image. Its just a slippery slope that will kill it off.

By: skweez

skweez — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Guess this means we’ll all have to start wearing our balaclava helmets I know it’s not much but at least it’ll give us some anonimity at local level.. they can’t have it ALL their own way..