Iolbb And Irma

sillild

I have read in The Times uk that there are US companies monitoring irish internet traffic for ip address that upload and download MP3s.

It also says IRMA will be requesting info from all broadband ISPs on who was using these ips at certain times.

When I questioned IOL about this they said they could not comment as the law is currently changing.

Does anyone know anymore or if the data protection act will protect us.

sillild

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1313398,00.html

ABOVE THE LINK

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Moriarty

It's entirely technically possible (and actually very, very easy to do), but I don't have the first notion about the law side.. so I'm going to move this over to.. erm.. Humanities.

Syth

sillild wrote:

that upload and download MP3s.

IANAL but it's not illegal AFAIK to download copyrighted work. Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right of redistribution, i.e. only the copyright owner can distribute the song/book/painting/programme/film/<insert other copyrighted work here>. So if someone uploads a copyrighted work, then they are breaking the law as only the copyright owner can do that. However AFAIK there is nothing in the law about recieving unauthorised copyright works (ie unauthorised means that the copyright owner didn't authorise that copy).

So in short if you download MP3(s) off the great internet then the person you are downloading from is breaking the law, not you.

If you are worried about getting sued then you should ask your broadband (or diallup) provider for a copy of the terms and conditions. If somewhere in the legalspeak it says that the ISP can/will turn over your details to some vigilante group of thugs hired by the recording ass. of ireland, then they most likely will havd it over. If however it doesn't mention anything about handing over your details then the recording ass. of ireland would most likely have to get a court order to get your details, as I'd be pretty sure that the data protection laws in this country would mean the can't just hand over your personal details to anyone.

OfflerCrocGod

Crap that's not good for me I'm sharing 100GB of stuff :eek: I'll be well fùcked if they decide to act.

Syth

The Register had a good article on the BPI's new idea of suing people. It's here. The Register normally is quite sane when it comes to 'piracy'.