Comments on: Why the IFPI/Eircom Anti-Piracy Deal Sucks

By: dogface

dogface — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:57:25 +0000

so if i cchange to ,lets say 3 i would be able to file share without the threat of disconnection

By: anon

anon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:26:11 +0000

oh let’s see the sudden loss of all of eircom’s customers to the smaller businesses. and with their sudden populatiry because of thier small sizes, they’ll do everything they can to keep it.

i can see this working out nicely for fastcom =D

By: TheOdd

TheOdd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:11:13 +0000

I would presume that although Eircom own the physical 'line', they wouldn't have the authority to cut you off because it's BT providing the service. The music industry is claiming that it's the ISP is responsible for any illegal actions taken by their customers, and in your instance, that would be BT. Eircom should have nothing to do with it.

By: TheOdd

TheOdd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:06:29 +0000

Really? I'd suspected that to be the case, but mainly figured I was just being ignorant due to the fact I don't watch the the Irish news. That's typical for Ireland mind you, so I shouldn't be surprised.

By: TheOdd

TheOdd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:03:19 +0000

It's a private limited company. It hasn't been state own since it changed it's name and there was all that ho-ha about the shares being sold. If it was still a state-owned company, we would have had that 7MB broadband they're advertising now a long time ago. Back when it was 'Telecom Eireann' it had what was perceived to be one of the best telephone infrastructures in all of Europe. I kid you not.

By: TheOdd

TheOdd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:59:05 +0000

My initial reaction was to change ISP, but instead I think I'm going to try to call their bluff for the moment. I'm going to keep downloading until I get my warning, then I'll consider moving or the seedbox option.

As for the general reaction… I'm not sure. Unfortunately most of the people I know personally who download music and such know how to get Kazaa-like programs and operate them, but don't understand them. Fewer still are aware that torrents exist. I think the implications of this decision by Eircom will go over a lot of average people's heads.

I would like to believe that this move by Eircom would cause an uproar (even though realistically Eircom has little option considering it was actively advertised it's services on the Pirate Bay and thus gave the record companies the leverage they needed to push this through) but I doubt that will be the case. We just don't have the same online social-networking culture here that many other countries have, and most people don't understand enough about what this all means to be worried about it.

By: Anoym

Anoym — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:06:21 +0000

This is F*cking Redicioulous, Were using BT, but the bt line is owned by eircom, First they rip us off, but now they put the curropt and messed up music industry before the customer. Can't wait to move outta here lol !

By: Dirkby

Dirkby — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:29:58 +0000

When is this coming into effect? It's all very ambiguous. Anyone?

By: Daithi

Daithi — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:37:21 +0000

Everyone seems to think that Eircom is the only ISP in Ireland. I stopped using them about 2 years ago because their service is absolute balls. Chorus is the one people are switching over to alot these days, so I can only see this as Eircom shooting themselves in the foot and driving more customers to the competition.

By: qqq

qqq — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:27:05 +0000

hd space arent problem nowadays. its so cheap. and if you dont have 100 kb/s, thats not a problem, just slows your movement a bit. as long you dont run out of space you are fine.