Ireland

Ireland is advent climate is very bad for the P2P world, even the music industry lobbyists who have reported great success when one of the largest Irish ISP Eircom, refused to fight in court and agreed to disconnect their customers, guilty of breach of copyright, now want the ISP blocks all file-sharing sites starting with the Pirate Bay.

The absurd thing is that at least in the case of the Italian Pirate Bay block, ISPs had obeyed an order to the financial police, even if the appeal court has decided to cancel the block, while in Ireland there is no measure Lawsuit Filed Against Pirate Bay. This is, in fact, private agreements between the music industry and ISPs while politicians, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands, unwilling to be involved in the story that would put against public opinion.

So the situation is that Eircom will block any site that will be reported by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and will accept any blacklists the same time the music lobbies have given notice to other ISPs within seven days to accept the same deal, otherwise they will be discussed in court. Of course, ISPs do not agree and seek protection. You do not really know who will go, since as said that the political forces are conspicuous by their absence, while virtually every form of freedom is eliminated from the internet.

And if the site has a lot of material free from the constraints imposed by copyright too will be blocked, just a notice of infringement to the site. This will also say that no artist in Ireland will present its content using peer to peer technology as a danger then that the site is disconnected, this will destroy any possibility for an artist to know his work outside the official channels.

I really hope that public opinion in Ireland react to these charges. If Eircom, in fact, might begin to see many of its users dissolve the contract and move to other ISPs that have not accepted the dictates dell'IRMA, namely whether all this will bring a huge economic loss, we must see if you continue to obey blindly to charges lobbies music.