Irish ISPs say No! to Big 4 labels
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- A group of Irish companies has joined the rapidly swelling ranks of ISPs around the world who are refusing to implement Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s three-strikes-and-you’re-gone policy.
Governments in France and New Zealand are, to their shame, doing everything they can to co-operate with the corporate music industry, but some Irish ISPs aren’t so enthusiastic, wondering why they should act against the best interests of their customers by imposing Draconian copyright enforcement laws.
“The ISP group sent an open letter to the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) on Friday, calling recent legal threats against them ’spurious,’ stating they won’t ignore established privacy law to aide the music industry’s campaign against illegal music swappers,” says The Register, quoting the ISPs as stating in their letter »»»
Privacy of user communications is protected in European and Irish legislation. ISPs can not be expected to ignore these merely because it does not suit another private party,” reads the letter from the Internet Service Providers in Ireland (ISPAI) group to the IRMA.
To do so would breach the privacy of our users as well as having serious implications for the continued location of international e-business in this country and the jobs these generate.
Stay tuned.
The Register – Irish ISPs rally against record label anti-piracy threat, March 17, 2009
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March 19th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Good on them. I’m glad to see more resistance to those b******s.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
@CHRoNoSS
It has never ended, except this time the labels are up against other businesses that have a vested interest in their customers rights.
“beware he who would deny you access to information for in his mind he styles himself your master”
March 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“And so it begins…” – Babylon 5
Fantastic to see these guys standing up to these bullies, I wrote to them with words of encouragement, you can do the same:
info AT ispai.ie
(edit the above line so that you have a normal email address without spaces)
March 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
What the copyright enforcers want and what the ISPs see as important are at two different ends of the spectrum.
In all this, I did not see any mention of the vested interests offering to pay the salaries of those extra employees that it will take the ISP hiring on to do this work. Nor do I see any mention of the vested interests saying they will compensate the ISP for the loss of business that disconnecting paying customers will result in.
What I see is the usual; do this for us at your expense. This is always the theme. Might sound really great to the vested interests but usually when you get down to the money figures, it’s always a loosing operation.
The ISP gets to be the bad guy in PR while the interests get to walk away without a bruise for all but the smartest of those effected.
Only time the ISP comes out the winner is if they too have vested interests that will help cut the cost. Best thing I can think of in that is when the ISP wants to become the on line store to sell you media and they figure they can’t compete with free. They can compete with free but it takes value added and that is something the copyright forces don’t want to bother with because that would mean more time put into the offers and time is money. Money they figure they should make not spend.
Idiocy has no boundaries when it comes to the corporation and their schemes on how to rake in the dough.