[ILUG] Eircom surrenders

[Kevin Philp]

Cathal A. Ferris wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Braun Brelin wrote:
>
>> Article in today's Irish Times about how Eircom has capitulated to 
>> the "Big
>> Four" music labels and will start implementing
>> "Three strikes" laws against illegal downloaders/uploaders.
>>
>> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0129/1232923373331.html 
>>
>>
>> I think Ireland needs a "Pirate Party" a la Sweden.
>>
>> Braun
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>
> Typical - misimplemented and it'll be made a joke of.
> Problems as I see it:
> - No definition of 'filesharing'
> - Reliance on a crowd of muppets to provide information that will lead 
> to denial of service
> - No distinction between copyright violation and allowed sharing
> - No distiction between types of shared data (e.g. open source v. music)
> - No appeals procedure.
>
>
> Idiots.
> I wonder what IMRO's stance on the matter is - the same people that 
> sent a 'cease and desist' to a fellow Skynet member that his own music 
> shared...
>
> Anyone involved in the other providers, please tell the music 
> companies where to shove it.
>
>
>
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>
And I guess those really into music sharing will just route via an 
anonymous proxy!

I also take issue with the music industries claims of how much money 
they lose. Stopping a free download does not translate into a €12 sale - 
markets are elastic, its basic economics, out of the 100 people who 
download for free how many would actually buy that same item at full 
price? 5%? ... 1%? How much do they really lose - maybe not as much as 
they claim.