UPC in court

Xpro

Just reading the news and see that UPC has proceedings against them as judge want them to pay 800-900,000€ for installation of software for monitoring of illegal downloads against music companies.

What a utter joke, and the system in this country. Obviously UPC is saying that music companies should pay for installation as its nothing to do with them but judge says the opposite.

Its like saying when I get a speeding ticket, Council should pay half of my fine as I was using their roads.

As usual, poor aul nation will have to pay for it when the prices of broadband go up... :rolleyes:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0327/690349-upc-downloading/

endacl

'Poor aul nation'?



Only UPC customers, surely? Who willingly enter into a contract with UPC?

How many threads do we need on this topic...

Xpro

endacl wrote: »

'Poor aul nation'?



Only UPC customers, surely? Who willingly enter into a contract with UPC?

How many threads do we need on this topic...

haha, im one of them... just got rid of eircom:pac:

Sorry I didnt see any other threads about this:o

hitbit

Next thing
Banks will have to pay thieves for robbing them, Ooooooooppppppps they're already doing that.

Hitbit

Cuddlesworth

Sean Sherlock(Labor TD) is the guy you have to blame and the party which was behind it. Please let them know how you feel at the next election.

Nollog

That's fairly stupid.

Infini

Could be appealled tho the whole 3 strikes thing has failed before.

Usjes

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Sean Sherlock(Labor TD) is the guy you have to blame and the party which was behind it. Please let them know how you feel at the next election.

What do politicians have to do with it? The verdict is ridiculous, but when I heard about it I attributed it to the usual, either:
(i) Corrupt judge
(ii) Dangerously incompetent judge who is too dishonest to admit he is not competent and recuse himself
How does a Labour TD have anything to do with it ?

Infini

UPC won the 1st time then sean cockup put that SI into the law and this is the result. End of the day im expecting an appeal to this as UPC are both unlikely to shoulder the costs willingly or be allowed to be made to police something thats the action of private citizens. ISPs arent the police this kinda action only happened cos the music industry was reputationally evicerated for suing joe blogs for millions of dollars of damages for downloading a song in the states.

Besides its pointless as well as the internet responds far quicker to these things than the music industrys legal eagles ever could. All this will do is have people switch to encrypted communicaions or sources that they cant monitor like direct downloads.

In the end even the hadopi 3 strikes system failed as it was simply unenforcable. Even eircoms one has failed as they never disconnected anyone. Even if they did they would just simply go to another isp.

Cuddlesworth

Usjes wrote: »

What do politicians have to do with it? The verdict is ridiculous, but when I heard about it I attributed it to the usual, either:
(i) Corrupt judge
(ii) Dangerously incompetent judge who is too dishonest to admit he is not competent and recuse himself
How does a Labour TD have anything to do with it ?

Sean Sherlock introduced and headed a legislative bill which made carriers responsible for content transmitted. I highly doubt that this is the last we will hear of this particular bill being abused, with facebook and Google headquarters situated here.