Eircom official:Music piracy 'good for rock stars'!

gurramok · 16-01-2009 12:06am #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0115/breaking81.htm

Quite an eye-opener:cool:.

Think i'll forgive Eircom aka Eircon for past evildoings like expensive dial-up/broadband on these comments

McDowell defending the record labels, remember him in his glorious days as Minister for Justice?

An Eircom official told colleagues they should think of music piracy as ‘sharing’ and “helping the health and good living of rich cocaine sniffing rock stars by leaving them with less free money to spend on sex and drugs”, the High Court heard today.
*snip*
He read an email from Eircom’s head of Internet Protocol, Denis Curran, of January 2001, which suggested “the MP3 piracy issue” be on the agenda of the next management meeting.

“We need to reach a decision on how we are going to handle this,” the email said. “PS ‘piracy’ is a loaded term. Could we say ‘sharing‘- ‘piracy’ implies there’s something wrong with it.
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“Think of it as helping the health and good living of rich cocaine sniffing rock stars by leaving them with less free money to spend on sex and drugs.”

Mr McDowell said Eircom was also this week advertising its broadband packages on a website, Pirate Bay, which was being prosecuted in Sweden over alleged large scale illegal music piracy.

galwayrush · 16-01-2009 12:11am

HAHAHAH. Only applies to older real rock stars. Modern rock / pop lite ****e performers / mime artists would be wasted on a single bottle of buckfast.

samhail · 16-01-2009 12:21am

breaking news of what some eircom guy said 8 years ago

the time it takes to get to our ears !

gurramok · 16-01-2009 12:24am

Struggling to think of modern rock stars if they exist

Louis Walsh a pioneer or rock stars?

I liked this bit in the article as just weird

Because of illegal downloading, the remuneration now going to recorded music had been reduced to “a trickle” with a very severe knock-on effect. Concerts and live performances were now the only source of income and records had lost their value almost completely.

Now, i never knew that the labels got/get huge sums of revenue from concerts as concerts were where the real money was earned by the artists.

Biggins · 16-01-2009 12:24am

Ok - own up!

Who's been downloading wee Daniel O'Donnell???
...and how can we cure your pain?

Who are the rock stars anyway?
Pebbles, The Rolling Stones...???

gurramok · 16-01-2009 12:25am

Danny snorts coke?

It might explain those high notes at times:)

Nick_oliveri · 16-01-2009 4:11pm

I take back all the **** ive ever said about them, seriously, this is amazing and i think the big 4 can go **** themselves. One critisism i have though, Artists never got the "trickle" from their album sales in the first place, they got the smallest percentage, and that was that. Record companies have been riding artists for years.

Wagon · 16-01-2009 4:31pm

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

I take back all the **** ive ever said about them, seriously, this is amazing and i think the big 4 can go **** themselves. One critisism i have though, Artists never got the "trickle" from their album sales in the first place, they got the smallest percentage, and that was that. Record companies have been riding artists for years.

Yep. Don't even bother going for a record deal.

1) Form a band.
2) Write some music, keep writing at your own pace and be as creative as you want to be
3) Get a mate who's intereted to manage your band,
4) Get some gigs locally.
5) Get your other mate do do up a website.
6) Keep playing.
7) Get more of your mates to be roadies.
8) You'll make no money but it'll be fun!

Terry · 16-01-2009 4:32pm

If you're half decent you can earn money by playing live.
**** the record companies.

Toiletroll · 16-01-2009 5:19pm

gurramok wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0115/breaking81.htm

Quite an eye-opener:cool:.

Think i'll forgive Eircom aka Eircon for past evildoings like expensive dial-up/broadband on these comments

McDowell defending the record labels, remember him in his glorious days as Minister for Justice?

OK - Eircom, I may very well come back to you in the future after this one!

Nick_oliveri · 16-01-2009 5:23pm

Seriously though, implement software that will stop it...lol.

Come off it, go back and harrass your own ISP's......GTFO

Nick_oliveri · 17-01-2009 7:41pm

Mr McDowell said Eircom was also this week advertising its broadband packages on a website, Pirate Bay, which was being prosecuted in Sweden over alleged large scale illegal music piracy.

Just noticed this, google ads? Mcdowell can use internets?

galwayrush · 17-01-2009 7:44pm

It would still take the average Eircom user a week to download an album in modern Ireland.:rolleyes:

lostexpectation · 28-01-2009 8:41pm

Record companies settle action against Eircom
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhsngbqlmhau/
the companies said they had agreed a joint approach under which they will work closely together to end the abuse of the internet by copyright infringers.

Eircom said it will warn the subscriber that unless the infringement ceases, the subscriber will be disconnected.

await the details of this

TheZohanS · 28-01-2009 8:50pm

gurramok wrote: »

Danny snorts coke?

It might explain those high notes at times:)

I'd say you're one letter out there.:)

The guy · 28-01-2009 8:55pm

This might make up for the crappy broadband packages.

Biggins · 28-01-2009 9:55pm

The guy wrote: »

This might make up for the crappy broadband packages.

...and their rip-off prices. Click here and compare! :eek:

old boy · 28-01-2009 10:07pm

[QUOTE=Nick_oliveri Record companies have been riding artists for years.[/QUOTE]

not naming anyone BUT theres a few i wouldnt mind riding myself, them record companys have all the joy

ejmaztec · 28-01-2009 10:08pm

That must mean that Eircom won't mind not charging us for uploading and downloading voices on our landlines.

The guy · 28-01-2009 10:13pm

Biggins wrote: »

...and their rip-off prices. Click here and compare! :eek:

Don't forget NTL

€42 for 24mb, that is nice.

CreepingDeath · 28-01-2009 10:19pm

Just seen this story on the RTE News.

The music industry is to supply the IP addresses of music uploaders and downloaders. Eircom then sends out a warning notice, and if they fails to stop them, then they'll disconnect the user.

Feck, I'd better do any downloading I want before this hits NTL !

Oh yeah, I'm sure a load of people will now downgrade there superfast broadband connections if they're not going to be using bittorrent 24-7 from now on !

yoyo · 28-01-2009 10:21pm

Stay away from public P2P networks and you be fine :pac:

Nick

Deliverance XXV · 28-01-2009 10:22pm

lostexpectation wrote: »

Record companies settle action against Eircom
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhsngbqlmhau/
the companies said they had agreed a joint approach under which they will work closely together to end the abuse of the internet by copyright infringers.

Eircom said it will warn the subscriber that unless the infringement ceases, the subscriber will be disconnected.

await the details of this

Yup! It's on the €ircom website now.

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/general/14837500/?view=Standard

To be honest I never thought i'd see €ircom crack?