IFPI Takes ISP to Court to Impose Music Piracy Filter
Written by enigmax on March 10, 2008The ‘Big Four’ record labels - EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner have started legal proceedings to force an ISP to end piracy on its network. The action, brought against Irish ISP, Eircom, is the first of its kind.
Eircom is the largest Irish ISP. Today, the Big Four record labels have started legal proceedings which they hope will force Eircom to effectively end music piracy on its network. According to the Ireland.com report, this action is the first against an ISP, rather than individual file-sharers.
Mr Justice Peter Kelly today admitted the proceedings at the court under the Copyright and Related Rights Acts 2000. It appears the labels are trying to get an order to effectively force Eircom to take responsibility for their customer’s actions by saying that it’s the ISP that is doing the ‘making available’ to the public, by facilitating the infringement.
Eircom’s lawyers see if differently. They say that Eircom was “not on notice of specific illegal activity that infringed the rights of the companies”, adding that it was under no legal obligation to monitor traffic on its network.
Willie Kavanagh, Managing Director of EMI records in Ireland said of Eircom: “with the greatest of respect” it was “well aware” that its customers used its networks to infringe copyrights “on a grand scale”.
Previously, Eircom has refused to use any filtering technology to interfere with file-sharers, something the labels wish to address in this case too.
It looks like the IFPI has shifted its focus from the individual filesharer to the ISPs. Last month, the IFPI won a court case in Denmark, and the ISP “Tele2″ was ordered to block all access to The Pirate Bay. Tele2 announced later that it will fight the decision.
Banning illegal filesharing from their network, voluntary or not, is in the best interest of ISPs according to the IFPI: “Illegal P2P file-sharing may have helped drive broadband subscriptions in the past, yet today these activities, particularly in respect of movies, are hogging bandwidth,” they state.
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“Illegal P2P file-sharing may have helped drive broadband subscriptions in the past, yet today these activities, particularly in respect of movies, are hogging bandwidth,”
It’s actually the other way around. Because it is hogging bandwidth people take more expensive subscriptions.
And what’s wrong with using bandwidth that is given to you?
Maybe just maybe, this could be a good thing!!Once the other countries see for themselves that it is indeed legally futile to try and censor the internet then every ISP will stop trying. And this wanker is talking about bandwidth hogging. If the ISP’s and other third-party companies start to censor everything then theres where the bandwidth hogging will start.
Hogging bandwidth for that internet connection of mine that I pay for every month. Silly me eh!!
give me sharing, or give me death
dude, someone have to stop these guys, how come should a anti piracy company rule the internet. this is getting out of hand.
This is total bs. Now anti-piracy companies are trying to control the internet? Give me a break…
First of all, if all ISPs ban pirate sites in my country, i will disconnect my internet.
I have nothing to do with internet.
Just checking my E-mails & reading news ? Fuck it.
i ain’t giving 50$ for checking my E-Mail.
News = TV always free !
E-mail, maybe i check my email once a week from a net-cafe
and it’s impossible to monitor over 2million customer, LoL
IFPI Bunch of donkeys.
let me check my IQ, what IFPI stands for :)
hmmmmm….
IFPI = International Fools Playing on Internet. hmmm Not bad :)
Why can’t the record companies just use this technology to embrace the future and make it easier for them to sell music.
Fuck IFPI. It’s as simple as that, and I’d usually not use profanity.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh NO!!!!!!!
as an eircom customer i was happy knowing p2p lawsuits have never being held in Ireland. This is really dangerous now, as the judge will probably not be up-to-date with any of this. And therefore, will most likely believe all this yarrr-harrr piracy bullshit from the IFPI.
Fuck it, this is SHITE! Do these people have an irish office! (to graffiti and abuse!?!)
PPI Ireland http://www.ppiltd.com
I CAN HAS LAWSUIT?!?
You can has lawsuit but you cannot has win.
[quote] “Illegal P2P file-sharing may have helped drive broadband subscriptions in the past, yet today these activities, particularly in respect of movies, are hogging bandwidth,” they state.[/quote]
I call it complete and utter BULLSHIT. There should be no way on earth to slow down provider network, and if there is that means that ISP are lazy fucks who don`t upgrade their networks to modern standarts.
Story with lawsuits reminds me time when people got first VHS recorders.
This hogging bandwidth argument is a load of shit. ISP’s shouldn’t offer so many high speed connections if they cannot afford the bandwidth.
Don’t blame the consumer for using what they paid for.
IFPI talks about hogging bandwidth, but i’m sure they wouldn’t mention it if there was a paid service sponsored by them
Organized crime gangs such as IFPI and RIAA need to be stopped.
[quote comment="308639"]ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh NO!!!!!!!
as an eircom customer i was happy knowing p2p lawsuits have never being held in Ireland. This is really dangerous now, as the judge will probably not be up-to-date with any of this. And therefore, will most likely believe all this yarrr-harrr piracy bullshit from the IFPI.
Fuck it, this is SHITE! Do these people have an irish office! (to graffiti and abuse!?!)[/quote]
i hope u boycott them, i really hope you change ur isp if this happen. fuck ifpi
I’m in Ireland aswell and can’t help but wonder what difference it will make whatever way it goes. If the ISP’s are found against how will they implement it. I know the obvious is throttle P2P ports and so on but that implies all traffic on P2P involves copyrighted material. Unless you are downloading from a silly website the direct links to the material, the website itself would be shut down by the overpaid security groups that like to send threatening emails to the likes of the Pirate Bay.
The reps of the organisations are pumping out such crap in the media here that non-tech people are going to be for it let alone a crusty old judge.
I find this stupid, as always. ISP’s are really “doors” to the internet. That what they really are. It isn’t the business of these companies to dictate what we can and cannot do with the internet connection they WE are paying for.
WE decide what we want in and out the doors.
And hogging bandwidth, what the hell? The argument will be useless in a few years/months because bandwidth is getting wider all the time. Cheaper too. I’m pretty sure there are a lot of torrent users on my ISP and I have NOT experienced any slowdown.
The internet is always expanding and bandwidth hogging will and already has been a dead argument.
ISP’s should also upgrade their data centres if they want to keep their customers happy; they have to make sure that they can afford the upgrades before expanding.
what’s next?
That’s like saying that cell phone companies are responsible for drug deals organized using phones.
Fucking idiots. It’s the police that should moniter illegal activity on the internet not isp companies, next they’ll be sueing shopkeepers for selling water to people without valid visas! The worlds gone insane, companies make money, police enforce laws, thats it, they’re completely seperate jobs.
Fuck the IFPI
[quote comment="308637"]Why can’t the record companies just use this technology to embrace the future and make it easier for them to sell music.[/quote]
because, they are dumb fucks who live under a gold-plated rock. They made billions doing the exact same crap over and over again during the 90s and early 2000. They feel as if they have no obligation to change with the times…
let them parish…I say
Wow. I honestly thought U guys were smarter than this. They can’t filter anything. Nothing. Nada.
Why?? I’ll tell U.
Let’s take an aXXo movie as an example, I need one, and this is easy.
The Mist[2007]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo
Rename file to something like: TM07, or what ever.
Archive to separate .rar files.
Stick all .rar files in one folder.
Archive again.
Rename file to: Misty07, or what ever.
Congratulations, U have now succesfully pybassed their filter.
It’s not that hard guys, use that little grey mass once in a while and everything will be just fine.
~_^
So if an ISP is responsible for what their customers use the internet for, I guess a gun shop owner is responsible for any murders done with a gun they sold, or the CD store owner is responsible for any copyright infringement from their CDs. And I guess it’s the store keepers fault for any shoplifters for making their products available to be bought and used?
If every pirate admitted to piracy under oath they would have to let us go, what can they do, arrest us all and put us in jail? There aren’t enough jails for that. Sue us all till we’re all homeless, then the government has no taxes because businesses shouldn’t get taxed. And if only a relatively few people are arrested then it’s unfair punishment for those who were sent home without jail time. Might end it all sooner, or cause a global revolt, which would be just as good.
Ban the access to a website that doesnt host any illegal content, only connection protocols?
Whats next? Block all outgoing and incoming connection from theyr users? lmfao they want us to pay for having a modem that gives a dead signal? They are fighting a lost war, give it a rest already, start with the world peace and only then go to the piracy.
I’m going to downgrade my bandwidth if my ISP is forced to block bittorrent access and torrent sites.
I am not paying lot’s of money to check my e-mail and read online news.
This might be the end of several ISPs if they have to block torrent traffic.
arrrghhhhhh
atlantic piracy arrrghhhhhh
fuck me parrot arrrghhhhh
i be a pirate arrrghhhh
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