Roze you can keep printing your bullshite all you want, but please enlighten us on exactly WHAT does this “human rights declarations, the right to privacy” have to do with anything? I have checked the laws in The Emerald Isle and the EU as well and NOWHERE does it say that having an internet account is a human right. Also Roze, NOWHERE in Ireland NOR the EU does anything give it’s citizens the “right to privacy” I am very sorry Roze and this is going to be hard for you in Europe to deal with considering that you constantly try to imply that it is some kind of paradise just because you pay 70% of your pay in taxes and then claim you get “free” stuff that your taxes actually pay for (an oxymoronic statement if I have ever heard one)
But now you have to understand that you can be shut off from the net a any time. So you go on and continue to post your bullshite if it makes you fell better, me? I am going back to doing what I have always done because I was seemingly smarter then the whole pack of posters as I got my internet account via the people in the US midwest who actually RUN and OWN the internet according to the World Court in the Hauge and the UN. And they have old the record and movie companies to shut up and leave them alone or they would turn THEM off form the net. So unless xxxnet changes their mind, I am really the only safe person on this thread!

I'm not on Eircom. I don't know if I'd move, myself. Preempt them with a giant F*** you! or just wait it out. Meh. Suffice to say, this little cop out will have no real effect, except to screw Eircom up a little more. Never a bad proposition.

And Bertie, dear Bertie. What a legend. How many people here think its believable that a Minister for Finance wouldn't have a bank account?

As you said, AA, the place is in shit.

On the matter of Eircom, I don't care. I'm in the 25%. My ISP is so new that they won't even bother paying attention to this thing. Eircom would have done better to pay damages than capitulate. Wait for them to be forced to cut people off in this new agreement and we'll see people flocking to Perlico. Which I'm not with either, who'll be the next target of MGM or whoever. Which suits me fine.

Problem is, of course… You get cut off by Eircom. What stops you from signing up to another ISP? Eircom cuts your line too? Satellite. Works for me. We do need Encryption. And we do need political pressure. I just don't see the latter working very well short of the Socialists picking up the pace. Which I don't expect.