An open letter from Boards.ie to Minister Sean Sherlock

Fey!

Unfortunately I typo'd my email address! D'oH (oops, that's a copyright infringement right there!!!)

infowars.com

if this law is passed it will meen the end of the internet and who knows maybe give them the chance to put a tax on the net,

Jimmy Bottlehead

Emailed him too:

Minister Sherlock,

I'm not going to write a long-winded email, as you know of and have heard all the arguments. All I will say is that following this through is not only political suicide, but also will resign your career and what reputation you have left to the dust-bin of history.

If you allow yourself to pass this, you will go down as a truly pathetic excuse for a human being, and the absolute epitome of an Irish politician. I urge you to grow a backbone, and shelve this piece of dictatorial nonsense.

Yours,

My real name Jimmy Bottlehead

hellboy99

Seán Sherlock discusses online copyright legislation in Dáil Éireann.

Condatis

dusterd wrote: »

Would this also mean if I copied text from a website and pasted it on here that it would be considered an infringement and therefore shut down this site?

Not if you properly attribute what you copy to the original source.

nesf

Condatis wrote: »

Not if you properly attribute what you copy to the original source.

If they copied and pasted the whole thing it'd still be infringement as far as I know. Extracts only are allowed I believe.

Suaimhneach

Great work DeV, as always, boards.ie and the attitude.

More funny pics from the original TUMBLR here No $h|T Sherlock

God damn it wont let me add the URL! The irony here is rich. Anyway, URL is http://nosh itseansherlocktd.tumblr.com/ with no space, obviously.

Stark

Suaimhneach wrote: »

http://no****seansherlocktd.tumblr.com/

"Not found
We couldn't find the page you were looking for.

Feel free to contact support if there's anything
we can help you find.
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Foiled by boards.ie's censorship filter.

Talentcoop

Did the Irish people vote to end democracy and freedom in the last election ?

Seems daily the current Government believe that's the mandate they were given.

Sherlock is just another numbskull interfering in something he clearly knows nothing about - the short timescale and lack of consultation (which might educate him) as shameful as much of the other measures taken by the current FG/Lab dictatorship.

Spoonman75

Signed. Thanks for keeping this in the public eye Boards.

DoesNotCompute

signed.

infowars.com

wheres the link to singe guys?

hellboy99

infowars.com wrote: »

wheres the link to singe guys?

http://stopsopaireland.com/

infowars.com

one more step to end freedom of speech,thats all this is,wellcome to the new world order

Maximilian

I just want to know what happens when all the 'thanks' from users won't fit on one page.

Oh and as a lawyer I think this is appalling & undemocratic legislation.

deise go deo

Déanta

49100

ianhobo

Watching that video is scary, he claims that it will be signed, irregardless, as such, he didn't even prepare a speech when asked where his speech was.
He says "The Internet" like someone who has never used "The Internet", and keeps repeating how "ISP's and Copyright holders must come together and talk" while making repeated circular motions with his hands. What a clown

hellboy99 wrote: »

Seán Sherlock discusses online copyright legislation in Dáil Éireann.

hardCopy

The snivveling weasel danced around the topic for 15 minutes and then says that the SI is imminent anyway.

Minowaman

hellboy99 wrote: »

Seán Sherlock discusses online copyright legislation in Dáil Éireann.

Wow. All 7 of our great TD's debating an issue that is being talked about all over the world. Could of sworn we had a few more of them.

losthorizon

Misty Chaos wrote: »

Fair play on putting the notice up like that with both sides of the argument so that we can have a reasoned discussion and not just one side. That would be totally unfair to all users:mad:

Fixed your post for you.

frankled

Signed and sent.

hellboy99

ianhobo wrote: »

Watching that video is scary, he claims that it will be signed, irregardless, as such, he didn't even prepare a speech when asked where his speech was.
He says "The Internet" like someone who has never used "The Internet", and keeps repeating how "ISP's and Copyright holders must come together and talk" while making repeated circular motions with his hands. What a clown

He hasn't a clue, is it any wonder we are where we are when we have people like this running the country.

nesf

losthorizon wrote: »

Fixed your post for you.

Right, you're pretty new to this forum but we don't allow posts like the above. Also the site's owners taking a position is not the forum taking a position, people can support this legislation all they want on here, no one is going to stop them.

DeVore

Absolutely Nesf. Forum rules still apply. This is a *discussion*... dissent is welcome and healthy. Either you can critique my letter or I guess start a second thread putting forward the opposing side. There doesn't seem to BE an opposing side though.

We arent saying "leave pirates alone" we're saying there is a chilling effect on user generated content when you hold the platform responsible for the actions of a small number of users, regardless of how diligent the platform is.

Spiritofthekop

Poor Sean Sherlock.

Obviously the weird kid who nobody spoke to in school... now probably loves this attention he is getting.

Sad little man.

Shakti

His site is down for maintenance??????
says it all really

Cabaal

Seems Mr Sherlock dislikes people contacting him through his website

http://www.seansherlock.ie/index.php

Site is currently down for maintenance.

and i was just about to send him a mail, does anyone have any e-mail addresses for him since he's going to try ignore us all I think its only fair we stop using his website and mail him directly,

token56

Signed, but this is seriously worrying. The level of debate being had by the people in power is completely horrendous. Only Catherine Murphy seemed to have a clue about what this meant and actually outlined the important issues. Seriously scary stuff.

1rishguy

Signed

ShooterSF

Has Sherlock been questioned about the dubious legality of his own website then?

EdIt - Down for maintenance hmmm