Eircom says it’ll block Pirate Bay access
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Speaking of The Pirate Bay, starting next month, Eircom is set to forcibly stop its Net users from accessing The Pirate Bay Eircom says it`ll block Pirate Bay access.
Having previously said it wouldn’t cut them off at the behest of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, it’s now renaged
Other internet service providers are refusing to block the site, despite legal threats from the music industry, notes Ireland Online.
“The High Court had issued an order on July 24th requiring Eircom to block the site,” says the Irish Times.
“In his written notice, Mr Justice Peter Charleton said Pirate Bay was ‘dedicated, on a weird ideological basis’ to stealing copyrighted material. He said the copyright in recorded music had been assigned to the record labels by hard-working artists, some of whom indeed may be very wealthy, but some of whom may be trying to do their very best to making a living out of what they love.
“In the original High Court hearing in January, evidence was heard that an Eircom official told colleagues they should think of music piracy as ’sharing’ and ‘helping the health and good living of rich cocaine-sniffing rock stars by leaving them with less free money to spend on sex and drugs’.”
But in its compliance with Big 4 record label demands, Eircom not only becomes a pariah among Irish ISPs, the bulk of whom have decided not to follow corporate music industry orders, it also in effect slaps Big Music in the face.
When the pressure to force Irish ISPs to abandon their customers was first applied, it may have had some meaning because The Pirate Bay indexing site was run by three enterprising Swedes who have been defying not only the Big 4, but also Hollywood.
Now, “Having for years been a mainstay of the net, it`s about to go under and while, like Napster, it`ll be resuscitated, there`s no chance of it ever being returned to its former glory,” p2pnet posted recently, going on:
“Instead, it`ll become just another corporate site owing allegiance to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, paying only lip-service (if even that) to the people they`re suing in the hope their bizarre marketing campaign will keep them all in business.”
By banning TBP, Eircom will not only lose customers, it’s also potentially depriving the Big 4 of big bidniz.
August 27 is the projected date Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory (GGF) will become TPB’s new owner.
It has said it will both change the logo, and change its name to The Pirate Bay.
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Pirate Bay – The Pirate Bay comments online, August 21, 2009
wouldn’t cut them – Eircom says it won`t block The Pirate Bay, February 25, 2009
Ireland Online – Eircom to block Pirate Bay access, August 20, 2009
Irish Times – Eircom to block internet access to Pirate Bay as other firms refuse, August 20, 2009
about to go under – The Pirate Bay: t-shirts and tattoos, August 14, 2009
p2pnet – The Pirate Bay Mark II, August 20, 2009
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August 21st, 2009 at 9:33 am
And by banning TPB you also ban real musicians using TPB to get their material out. But who cares about real musicians who have the brains to use the web as a medium of free distribution right? We only care about whomever the **AA groups tell us to, right?
WRONG! If only the indie artists who use TPB could ban together and shout with petitions and a few pro-bono lawyers who’ll get paid when they win, file a class action lawsuit against **AA groups (and their global counterparts in the countries where this blocking takes place) and sue them. Sue them for what? For infringing on their right to distribute their music!
If you can sue people for illegally distributing their music outside of approved channels because of loss of revenue, then you can sue people for preventing you from earning profits/exposure by preventing customers/consumers from access to the distribution channels you chose to use!
Logically, that’s how I see it! Of course in lawyer-speak, it’s probably some clusterfucks of “technically, but you see, given … blah blah blah” garbage that prevents anything from hitting the corporations back and only hurting the little people. Sorta like a non-existent rule of law. “No, I CAN beat you because I’m a police officer, but you can’t defend yourself because that’s assault on a police officer, but I can’t be charged with assault by you because I’m a police officer. Get it? I can, you can’t, regardless of whether I’m in the wrong or not. … listen guy, I AM the law”
September 6th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Nobody seems to see this for what it really is. Eircom banning access to the site is an experimental step to testing peoples reactions to the idea of censoring the internet and bringing in the options to banning access to whatever isps they see fit, whenever they see fit. Its just another example of how civil liberties are steadily being eroded away just like everything else that going on in Ireland and the rest of the world right now, and its all going on, right under peoples noses, while they ignore it all and indulge themseles in Vivian Westwood or whatever other blind habits they have picked up because of the relentless media saturation and brainwashing that floods their lives from every angle. Irelands constitution isnt worth the paper its written on any more. One day theyll own your DNA. One day when you look at a strand of human dna under a microscope youll be seeing a copyright mark printed on it. The corporations of this world are being given full permission to steamroll our lives in a fully legal fashion. The inaction of the population serves to sell your children and your childrens children into the worst kind of world that we could possibly leave behind for them.