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I have read sometime ago that RIAA has made a series of litigation against all the ISPs in Eire so that no internet user could switch ISP .

This article goes to contradiction to the previously known news. what happened so far?

> “Someone who uses a service to perform illegal activities is not worthy of the word ‘customer.’”

Then you may have no business, since no customers = no business.

Forcing people to be paying customers with a wealth of a market of free options seems not a business make. Trying to, which seems to be the case, appears like trying to get people to buy bottled air. The only way to have that happen is to seriously pollute their environment– and I mean it in the legal sense too. People already buy bottled water, so it is possible, but ultimately bad for nature and culture in the long run.
What is ostensibly happening often looks to me like short-term and get-rich-quick thinking with little thought to the socio-cultural environment and its future. Creativity will likely explode when/(if) money and record companies go away. As it is now, all I hear on the radio and everywhere else still are the same tunes over and over and over again. I suspect that we are at a crossroads between cultural stagnation (“Christmas art every day”) and revolution (new, exciting forms every day!).

My corrections in brackets… ;)

> “This whole thing would cease to be a problem if the [industry] just realized that they aren’t the only ones that matter.”

> ” In the end, I guess, it doesn’t get anymore ironic. Artists are working as hard as they can to deliver good music to the consumers, and the consumers aren’t doing squat.”

I prefer to consider myself a citizen, as opposed to a consumer, perhaps because the moment we get a consumer, we get a wage-slave, or a bigger one. The moment we get wage lock-in is the moment nothing in life is free, and of course, just about everything in life IS free. The sun, the water, the air, the birds; the pear trees and the land they’re on.

Wikipedia or Google “Property is theft.”; “Wage slave”; or “debt slavery” and then ask yourself if paying for ANYTHING makes as much sense as you thought it did. To me, it is starting to make less and less sense than it ever did.

Industries, at least as we know them, may be seeing their last years.

The future may be beautiful, with less work hours, guaranteed wages, green products and processes, etc., but we will have to fight and fight hard for it over those who may not and never get it.

Google (or better yet, or ultimately, consider an open source search engine and/or supporting one.) Steady State Economics (Herman Daly)

> “They’re just sitting there and pirating anything they can get their hands on. They have no concept of hard work”

That’s the Protestant Work Ethic, n’est pas? A 40-plus-hour work week?
Harder and longer for less and less?
Good propaganda for slave-trading perhaps but…
Nature seems to strongly suggest that one doesn’t have to work nowhere near as long and as hard as they do… to be happy, fulfilled, content.
The systemic lense of ‘capital’ through which capitalism peers will never work for ‘people’ no matter how hard it tries, probably because, if Thomas Kuhn is corrent; it is the lense that determines what we can see.
Changing our lense to People will change what and who we see and prioritize.

Any good VPN provider will do – I’m testing blackVPN who have servers in the UK, USA and Netherlands. Check their twitter page they are still giving out free accounts while they beta test. @blackVPN

@%*# censorship and the 3 stikes!

Sure, humans are fundamentally selfish creatures, it’s the only way proven to work, and so you can’t really blame them for looking out for #1. If that means grabbing what they want for free without apparent consequence, they will. Your copyright laws don’t mean anything if you don’t have the power to enforce them, and given what’s been created here with I.T. the last few decades I’d say you seriously have you work cut out if you think you can control people’s use of it. It’s far more than just computers on the net these days. You have no choice but to accept it and try to work with it, though you may hate that. In the dotcom goldrush of the 90′s apparently few stopped to consider the consequences of their creation, all fueled by an insatiable appetite for more wealth, as usual. Now look… oops, your industry might have gotten shafted along with many others. Love it, hate it… whatever; it’s just evolution at work – nothing right or wrong about it.

Media will always exist and in vast quantities irrespective of whether the present industry survives or not, and especially so given the availiability and capability of today’s technologies. Your artists certainly have no inalienable right to a viable career built on a premise that people must buy what they create.  People don’t need to buy it anymore, they can just copy it for free instead and save their money. 100% OFF WHILE STOCKS LAST! And don’t act all dumb with the trying to pretend that people don’t know hard work either, of course they do, but they’re also experts on mastering the most efficient ways of conserving resources… minimal cost for maximum return is a common goal, and that by no means excludes resource expenditure required in obtaining entertainment media for self-satisfaction.

Almost all the artist gat crappy contracts with a really low share of the profit, they are forced to go on lots of tours and make the albums the way the slavemasters want it, that’s ruining the music industry.

Ever heard of the initiative Sellaband? That’s more like the future. The old ways are dead and done, piracy just helps to bury them :)

This whole thing would cease to be a problem if people just realized that they aren’t the only ones that matter. Artists aren’t their slaves and they aren’t entitled to everything. Artists need to make a viable career out of what they do too.

In the end, I guess, it doesn’t get anymore ironic. Artists are working as hard as they can to deliver good music to the consumers, and the consumers aren’t doing squat. They’re just sitting there and pirating anything they can get their hands on. They have no concept of hard work, just self satisfaction. They have no concept of self sacrifice, just enjoyment. They can’t even bring themselves to contribute to that which they enjoy, which is what makes them so despicable.

> according to Eircom spokesman Paul Bradley, there has been “no measurable loss” of customers moving to Ireland’s other ISPs

That is “no measurable loss, +1″.

Eircom are uncompetitively priced anyway – see the comparisons on callcosts.ie to see for yourself.

It might actually be a good thing they are enforcing this “3-Strike Policy”; it will prove that their tactics are wrong and will result in a huge-loss of business.

Mass boycott of Eircom please ;), Lol.

Absolutely no mention about such topics. Also our largest ISP hosted in their server the largest piracy forum + FTP server. ;)

But wireless mesh networks are not well equipped to handle the other problems we’ve discussed. Because a wireless network can’t communicate with the Internet until it finds a wire, it is dependent on a single ISP. Ultimately it is limited by the ISP’s access speeds and network management policies.

If wireless devices were ever to become powerful and prevalent enough for the mesh to replace much of the Internet as we know it, every mobile phone and laptop could become a voluntary peer in a global community of equals, without oversight or restrictions. Alternatively, if virtualization, a technology that slices up computers into multiple “virtual” machines, is ever successfully applied to the hardware at the Internet POP (right now it’s busy transforming the corporate data center), we could conceivably all afford to be our own ISPs someday.
But the limitations of current technology—as well as the opposition of ISPs and telcos, fighting to fend off what they see as a doomsday scenario—make these blissful utopias unlikely anytime soon.
Rest of article:
–http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081024_e_speech_the_uncertain_future_of_free_expression/

If you nevertheless add ‘spectrum reform’ (google it) to the equation, that might tip utopia past the tipping point to reality.
(Support/Join your local wireless mesh groups and spectrum reform.)

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http://filevortex.com

_some_ customers? How about 66% of customers (look at the news item below this one)? HAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ASSHOLES.

Mr. Lenihan, do you not have some political work to be doing? Get off TorrentFreak!

Q:What’s the difference between IRMA and the IRA?
A:One of them used to be a terrorist organisation

I know, not everybody is affected by it, probably depends on the congestion of each node or so.

Great, I can see the future of that company even more clearly now.

It’s in the country where Eircom have a monopoly where people are going to feel the hurt. Other ISPs need to set up there asap to take advantage of customers who’d like to jump ship.

Mark my words, they will end up in court. The only difference is that this route will involve an exodus of customers/lost revenue.

The threat to ISPs from disgruntled customers will always outweigh the threat from the music industry. To capitulate that quickly- it’s financial suicide.

I’m changing to UPC myself this week.

UPC is throttling P2P-connections (especially BitTorrent) at least in Austria and Netherlands, so I wouldn’t exactly recommend them either.