Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report 77
2phar writes "The Irish Government is 'to publish an order early in the new year to allow music publishers, film producers and other parties to go to court to prevent ISPs from allowing their customers access to "pirate" websites.' The government has 'written to music publisher EMI Ireland confirming the order will be published and incorporated into existing legislation in January ... EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem.'"
This is a response to a ruling that Eircom's current "three strikes" rules were illegal due to privacy issues.
The lesser of two evils (Score:4, Interesting)
So you're not going to be hauled over the coals through a three strikes system - WIN!
Certain sites may be blocked - Meh.
If you really want to get to a site you'll get to it either via tor, running your own DNS, or via a VPN. I'd take this system over a three strikes any day.
Re:New corporate overlords (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder how Irish election campaigns are funded?
Wait, what? (Score:5, Interesting)
EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem.
"We'll sue you if you don't change your laws"?! On what basis? Did I just misunderstand that sentence?