Big 4 labels go after BT Ireland
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) are going all-out in their efforts to gain complete control of who does what, and how they do it, online.
The Big 4 labels already have governments around the world hopping to it as they try to follow corporate instructions by compelling local ISPs to become corporate copyright cops willing to provide data so the labels can sue not only the providers’ customers, but also their own.
Now they’re after Ireland’s second-largest telco, BT Ireland, and largest cable operator UPC Ireland, “to force them to act against illegal music downloads by their subscribers,” says the Irish Times, going on:
“The move follows an out-of-court settlement in January between Eircom and the labels – EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner Music – under which the telco agreed to introduce a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule for persistent downloaders.
“As part of the agreement, the record labels agreed that they would seek a similar system to be put in place by all other internet service providers (ISPs), so that Eircom would not be at a competitive disadvantage.”
Big 4 Irish enforcer Irma is fronting the actions, says the story.
“Proceedings were issued in the High Court and Tuesday by “EMI Records (Ireland) Limited and others” against BT Communications Ireland, and in a separate case against UPC Communications Ireland,” it says. However, “legal papers have not been served on either ISP”.
The European Parliament rejected a telecoms reform package, “because of concerns over provisions in it to cut off internet users who infringe copyright,” says the Irish Times, adding:
“Members of the parliament felt internet access was a right of citizens.”
British ISPs will be ordered to cut ‘illegal filesharing’ by 70% within a year under new powers set to be given to the communications regulator Ofcom, the Digital Britain report, published today,” said The Guardian recently.
June, 2009
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Irish Times – Major music labels in court move to force internet providers to act on downloads, June 20, 2009
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June 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
so instead of fighting for the privacy of its consumers, Eircom claims anti-competition because they have to filter their consumers, and the other ISPs in Ireland dont !?!?
‘We could lose clients wholesale, therefore you have to level the playing field by demading the other ISPs fuck their consumers too !!’
wtf?
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Why don’t ISP’s join forces and tell these turds to fu** off and die.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
If you know swedish: http://integrity.st/
Mailbomb Bahnhof, ephone, AllTele, etc, and demand that they shall start offering their services in your country too.
And then you can mailbomb all of those other stupid ISPs about following those smart ISPs example.