Major Record Labels Go To Court Again To Force Irish ISP To Bring In 'Three Strikes' System
from the this-is-getting-boring dept
Last September, Techdirt wrote about an extremely thorough review of the "three strikes" schemes around the world, which showed pretty conclusively that they simply don't achieve their stated goals. But that doesn't seem to worry the recording companies, which are trying again to compel the second-biggest ISP in Ireland to bring in the "three strikes" approach, as TorrentFreak reports:
The world's largest record labels have gone to court to force Ireland's second largest Internet service provider to take action against file-sharers. Following a failed bid three-and-a-half years ago, Sony, Universal and Warner are back with fresh action against UPC, demanding that the ISP implements a three-strikes-and-you're-out approach to its pirating customers.
There's quite a complicated backstory to all this, which Techdirt has been tracking for a while. In 2008, recording companies sued Ireland's largest ISP, Eircom, over alleged file sharing by its customers. As part of a settlement, Eircom agreed to bring in a "three strikes" system. The recording companies then moved on to UPC, which refused to roll over, and went on to defeat the labels in court. However, since then the legal landscape in Ireland has changed, as TorrentFreak explains:
The case, set to go before the Commercial Court, could turn on whether legislation introduced in Ireland during 2012 will allow a judgment in [the Irish Recorded Music Association]'s favor. Already the courts have shown a willingness to clamp down on illegal file-sharing, ordering ISP blockades of sites including The Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents.
It's really ridiculous to see the international recording industry expending so much money and effort trying to force ISPs to punish their customers in this way when we have evidence from around the world that the "three strikes" approach just doesn't work. It's also sad to see the Irish government aiding and abetting them in this pointless attack on its own citizens.
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The war for Culture is on. Unfortunately the people are the "under geared" guerrilla. Fortunately, this poorly armed and organized bunch will be happy to hand the MAFIAA their own collective asses ;)
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Aren't investor state disputes fun kids?
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So what I do is I log in to my VPN, and I'm able to go to those sites anyway. Problem solved (well for me that is). I imagine now the 'AAs will go after VPN providers.
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Money Spent
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Also, the uber riche should be afforded more votes than the serf classes.
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"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Not a statement of fact, but a statement of history repeating itself.
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three strikes for all
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Thanks Techdirt!
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Feb 17th, 2014 @ 8:26am
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1. Download and share content for free.
2. ???
3. Profit!
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$1 trillion dollars in Hollywood math is the approximate equivalent of 35 cents in the real world.
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I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm.
I mean, here you are on a blog that has nothing to do with Google, commenting on a story that has nothing to do with Google nor with endorsing piracy (much less "the piracy business"). And somehow that's proof that this blog demonstrates how much Google loves the piracy business.
If it isn't sarcasm, then it's being an agent provocateur against the copyright industry. Whether intentionally or not, you're simply making "your side" look like raving idiots.
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Let's stop having others do the recording industry's job for them
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They went after a smaller ISP, tried to get them to cave and set precedent they could use to force the larger ISP's to act as their enforcers, and got pretty thoroughly crushed in court. I'll see if I can dig up the article on it.
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Found them
Opening salvo:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081120/1214592902.shtml
iiNet wins, opposing side ordered to pay fees:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100203/1516058028.shtml
Opposition makes last ditch attempt, gets crushed again:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110224/00490713240/iinet-wins-again-australian-appeals-cou rt-says-isp-not-responsible-copyright-infringers.shtml
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http://torrentfreak.com/australian-government-signals-online-piracy-crackdown-140214/
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I support this
If the three strikes applies to the **AAs, too, then I'm all for it! Just think, if they make three mistakes in DMCA takedowns (which should take about 3.5 minutes), then they are kicked off the Internet forever!
Then you might as well just break them up, release all their content to the public domain, sell the remainder and put all the execs in prison for life. I have skipped the extreme reactions to their third strike, because I don't want to descend to their level.
Yah, I'm dreaming. Sue me.
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That's what got France in so much trouble for passing Hadopi.
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Infinity minus a day on copyrights is still only "throttling" the public domain, because any law that governments pass will still meet the definition of "for a limited time".
I'm sure the corporations and their government lackeys will argue throttling an internet connection will still be fine and legal, as long as it's not forever. "Life + 70 Years" ought to do it (Hey, it's working out for copyright).
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Then when the new government cut its funding, HADOPI sent out even more letters than they had when they had more funding.
So HADOPI was much more inefficient when their salaries were higher. Most people would call that "bullshit", but that's copyright enforcement for you.
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