Eircom and BT won't oppose music firms

machalla

I thought this might be topical

http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9617239.html

TheMonster

anyone "actually" know one of the 17 people targetted? Apparently they have been notified.

PiE

"serial file-sharers"

Ahahahahaha.

anyone "actually" know one of the 17 people targetted? Apparently they have been notified.

Nah, they're most likely a dozen 14 year old girls who didn't realise sharing Justin over MSN/AOL was an issue, and a couple of grannies.

juliuspret

What a pile of sh!t!!!

Im not even going to start saying how stupid this is...but it really is.

People used taperecorders in the 80's and record companies went bonkers....nothing much has changed in 20 years!!!

Red Alert

I think a class-action suit against Eircom and BT is in order - after all they are actively trying to water down the data protection act. Anyway, i'd love to move to somewhere like Russia where nobody gives a **** about this stuff.

gurramok

Well, you are in the EU and thats where all these new copy protection laws are coming from at the behest of the record labels.

Infini

I wonder what the story will be with the rest of them including Smart, NTL and IBB? Eircom and BT are crap anyway IMO but I dont like the way they're simply not gonna fight it. They're practically letting some greedy corporate a-holes have ppl's details from the sound of it.

Moriarty

Moved to computers.

CyberGhost

Infini wrote:

They're practically letting some greedy corporate a-holes have ppl's details from the sound of it.

yes, a-holes like themselves,

there is no stopping to our greediness - eircom

this shows just how little they care about customers, they are not going to defend them one bit

well, if they start seriously going after people

I'll just downgrade to 1 meg or just drop broadband all together, I can surf boards with dialup

Pa ElGrande

15 of the users in question were using KaZaA and 2 using Gnutella based networks. More or less as expected the main ISP's are putting up token resistance, which is fair enough they do have a business to run and solicitors are expensive.

Acording to the schedule the hearing is set for July 8 in the high court

2005 2014P EMI RECORDS Ireland LIMITED V EIRCOM LTD (F.H)

I can't get to the court in time for Friday, by chance is there anyone on boards who can volunteer the time to report on proceedings?

secret_squirrel

what obligations do Eircom and Esat have to us under the data protection act in this matter?

Pa ElGrande

Your rights under data protection act

http://www.dataprivacy.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/rights/2.htm&CatID=16&m=r

juliuspret

Pa ElGrande wrote:

15 of the users in question were using KaZaA and 2 using Gnutella based networks. More or less as expected the main ISP's are putting up token resistance, which is fair enough they do have a business to run and solicitors are expensive.

Acording to the schedule the hearing is set for July 8 in the high court

2005 2014P EMI RECORDS Ireland LIMITED V EIRCOM LTD (F.H)

I can't get to the court in time for Friday, by chance is there anyone on boards who can volunteer the time to report on proceedings?

I would have expected the people to have got caught using a torrent client as P2P is peanuts in comparison to what can be transferred through torrents.

aidan_dunne

juliuspret wrote:

People used taperecorders in the 80's and record companies went bonkers....nothing much has changed in 20 years!!!

That reminds me of a Tommy Tiernan sketch:

"All these record companies sh!tting themselves over this whole MP3 thing. "Oh no, nobody will buy records and CD's anymore! We'll loose millions!" Bullsh!t! I don't know how many of you in here tonight are old enough to remember, back in the 1980's, the whole "Taping songs off the radio crisis"! Oh God, yes, we had them shaking in their boots then, didn't we! Sitting there in your bedroom, one finger poised over the record button, the other hovering over the play button, waiting for the DJ.......... to shut the fúck up! Telling everybody else in the house to "please be quiet or it'll pick up the sound of ye talking instead of the song!" And, tell me, what great songs did we sit in our bedrooms and "download" onto our tape recorders in the 80's? Well, God help us all, believe it or not we made a millionaire........ a fúcking mill-ion-aire..... out of........ Shakin' Stevens! Shakin' fúcking Stevens!"

Anytime I hear or read anything about this whole MP3 backlash from record companies, I just smile to myself and think of that sketch. Somebody should send all those fatcat execs in Universal and AOL Time Warner and Virgin and BMG and all the other record companies a copy of that DVD, I reckon.

Pa ElGrande

The movie industry will probably get around to torrent users sooner or later, for now Hollywood is concentrating on the tracker sites.
The record cartel representative (IRMA) is focused on suing Irish users of P2P software that make copyright music held by their members available for upload. Mediasentry allows them to scan the KaZaA and Gnutella networks and its easy to trace the IP address of their victims back to their ISP.

Pa ElGrande

aidan_dunne wrote:

That reminds me of a Tommy Tiernan sketch:

Here you go enjoy - http://www.tommytiernan.com/mp3_popup.html

VeVeX

Dont know who i dislike the most Record companies or Tommy Tiernan