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[Article] Eircom to cut off Music File Sharers ..
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exactly, and the record companies can't force eircom to give them those details now because they already have an out of court agreement with them regarding this, so if the record companies want that information they'll have to take eircom to court all over again the same as comreg have to every time THEY try and force eircom to do something they don't want to.
it's a classic eircom move that they have practiced many times before.
the data protection act protects the privacy of your name/IP address from 3rd party's so eircom has basically just made it look like they are complying with what was agreed, but in reality they just totally dodged a bullet.
eircom really doesn't care what people are downloading and they aren't just going to willingly cut off customers on the say so of a record company and merrily send them over to the competion, esp. when the competition (for the most part) offers a much better service.
there IS a recession on you know.
not entirely. the record companies have no idea 'who' is downloading their material and they never will.49 pages and people still dont understand how all this works... Eircom dont/wont monitor nothing, is the record companies who will inform Eircom of who is downloading/misusing this material and then ask Eircom to act accordingly.
what they have is an IP address and a time which tells them nothing more than who the ISP of that person is. the only people who know, or will ever know those details are eircom and they are under no obligation to give out that information to anyone.
all they have done is agree to something that nobody other than themselves has any way of policing.
maybe they will use it as an excuse to kick off their most prolific (over)downloaders but that's about it. if you're that sort of person anyway, why would you be an eircom customer when there are much better options?0 -
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there's the rub. with eircom appointing themselves the firesharing equiv. of judge dredd, who polices the download police?Will internet users under this agreement have any process for defending themselves against erroneous allegations (apart from suing their ISP)?
sacly.If it is record companies who do the informing and Eircom just counts the number of notices from record companies, how can you ensure against record companies abusing this "ability"? Or that they don't make errors in their data collection?
i still think it's just another eircom circlejerk to buy time before they actually have to do anything about it.
what's to stop eircom from telling the record companies that it was such an effective strategy that not a single customer has gotten more than two strikes?
it ought to buy them plenty of time to twiddle their thumbs if they have to (officially) double strike every customer. 0 -
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acalmenvoy wrote: »I would pay 2euro for a complete album download at 320kbps or a good quality movie download with no DRM, and I havent paid for music or movies in years, at those prices I think I would replace all my existing music with the good quality legal stuff.
I think a lot us would and the music industry would make a lot of money, but will they bite the bullet, who knows, but if they did, I feel attitudes could change over a generation, and while piracy will always there, maybe it wont be as popular as it is now.
I'd like to buy a brand new Hyandai i30 for 5000e, I feel they are expensive and that the car industry would sort its lack of sales by dropping prices
We'd all like stuff cheaper 0 -
Actually it's an urban myth. A minority of the population does file sharing.
So it's a small minority that are bringing down the film and music industry ? There's people that download (via torrents) albums that they wouldn't have bought anyway. Using torrents isn't idiot proof, you have to have some kind of familiarisation with the software and using broadband, especially if you've to forward ports.
Look at the amount of money that Dark Knight raked in at the pictures! Same with Mamma Mia on DVD.
I used to work in a cinema and I'd hear kids say how they'd already seen such and such a film on pirate while they were buying tickets for said film.0 -
I'd like to buy a brand new Hyandai i30 for 5000e, I feel they are expensive and that the car industry would sort its lack of sales by dropping prices
We'd all like stuff cheaper
I'm supprised at that comment by a moderator and a veteren of over 10000 posts, when was the last time you downloaded a Ford Focus from P****e B*y...
>Gives up<....:(0 -
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acalmenvoy wrote: »I'm supprised at that comment by a moderator and a veteren of over 10000 posts, when was the last time you downloaded a Ford Focus from P****e B*y...
>Gives up<....:(
Sorry I offended you,
How about this,I'd like to buy Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Sollection for 50e (normal retail about $2,500), I feel it is expensive and that the software industry would sort its lack of sales by dropping prices
We'd all like stuff cheaper
:rolleyes:Your probably the only one
I've never cared about looks of cars or 0-60 in x seconds, just road tax costs, running costs and fuel economy 0 -
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