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Says they'll strike similar deals across Ireland
(old news - 05:42PM Thursday Jan 29 2009)
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As we've been exploring, the music industry has been engaged in a global campaign to put ISPs into the role of content nannies, trying to get laws passed forcing ISPs to terminate the accounts of repeat offenders. So far laws have been successful in only a few countries (like France), though closed door negotiations with ISPs has some cooperating voluntarily. The music industry's latest victory on this front is in Ireland, where they've reached a settlement with an Irish ISP to boot music pirates from their network:
"The record companies have agreed that they will take all necessary steps to put similar agreements in place with all other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Ireland," said Eircom, which is majority owned by Australia's Babcock & Brown Capital and ranks itself as Ireland's biggest telecommunications supplier.
We've well discussed the technical and legal problems with terminating suspected pirates based on the RIAA's often unreliable evidence, but the labels say they're working to strike similar deals with every broadband ISP in Ireland.

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I Don't Get It

Why would so many ISP's agree to cooperate?

Is it threats or bribes that are influencing the decision for ISP's to volunteer to assist?

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Re: I Don't Get It

said by jmn1207 See Profile :

Why would so many ISP's agree to cooperate?

Is it threats or bribes that are influencing the decision for ISP's to volunteer to assist?
In this case, it was a potential loss by the ISP in an Irish court that prompted the settlement:

As part of the settlement reached after proceedings in an Irish court on Wednesday, the companies agreed to supply Eircom with the IP addresses of people they detect illegally uploading or downloading copyrighted works on a "peer-to-peer" basis.

"High Court proceedings ... have been settled on an amicable basis with both sides expressing satisfaction with the outcome," Eircom said in a joint statement with the record companies.
More info from an Irish news web site:
»irishdev.com/Home/News/271-eirco···tes.html
»www.siliconrepublic.com/news/art···-pirates
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Maybe they want people to stop breaking the law. I do, heck if it were me they would only get ONE warning that no service, and I would tell every other ISP in the country about them.

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Maybe they want people to stop breaking the law. I do, heck if it were me they would only get ONE warning that no service, and I would tell every other ISP in the country about them.
Just how legal is your Anime hobbie??

»[Anime] Can someone recomend a good anime(s) for me to watch?

shame on you
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Just how legal is your Anime hobbie??

»[Anime] Can someone recomend a good anime(s) for me to watch?

shame on you
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Just how legal is your Anime hobbie??
"Only thieves and vandals have made money on 'Calvin and Hobbes' merchandise." - Bill Watterson
me1212 is a clone of the Born Again Christians who decry piracy at every level, while displaying their intellectual property theft of Calvin praying or some such.

»lambiek.net/artists/w/watterson.htm

I guess theft is OK if it's for the Glory of God.

It's the same logic that makes the wizardry of the Hogwarts School evil, while the wizardry of Narnia is encouraged. I guess evil is actually OK, as long as it's in the similitude of Christ.

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Re: I Don't Get It

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I don't DOWNLOAD them, I meant if they download, not listen to/watch on youtube, there is a difference. heck, by that logic an on granny taeing *insert show here* on a VCR and watching it should be punished, and the whole concept of vcr tapes for sale is wrong. If I were downloading every ep of naruto that would be wrong.

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I don't DOWNLOAD them, I meant if they download, not listen to/watch on youtube, there is a difference. heck, by that logic an on granny taeing *insert show here* on a VCR and watching it should be punished, and the whole concept of vcr tapes for sale is wrong. If I were downloading every ep of naruto that would be wrong.
HUH??

anyone understand this?
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I think I could interpret, but why bother?
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I only watch them on like veoh, I don't download the my computer hard drive. and no i'm not high, I don;t do drugs. If I were downloading them to my com(s) that would be where I draw the line, I should note however that if my ISP told me to stop veoh-ing anime cause its against the law I would.

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said by me1212 See Profile :

I don't DOWNLOAD them, I meant if they download, not listen to/watch on youtube, there is a difference. heck, by that logic an on granny taeing *insert show here* on a VCR and watching it should be punished, and the whole concept of vcr tapes for sale is wrong. If I were downloading every ep of naruto that would be wrong.
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said by me1212 See Profile :

Maybe they want people to stop breaking the law. I do, heck if it were me they would only get ONE warning that no service, and I would tell every other ISP in the country about them.
Sounds good to me, I have a long list of people I don't like, now I have way to cut off their Internet access with no way to defend and probably years of pain trying to prove they were innocent.
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said by me1212 See Profile :

Maybe they want people to stop breaking the law. I do, heck if it were me they would only get ONE warning that no service, and I would tell every other ISP in the country about them.
Sounds good to me, I have a long list of people I don't like, now I have way to cut off their Internet access with no way to defend and probably years of pain trying to prove they were innocent.
Heh, good one! And this didn't even occur to me.

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Wait a second...

Ireland has broadband access? I just we just gave them electricity 3 or 4 years ago....
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Who will protect the innocent?

It is really dangerous to have the Fox guard the Hen House. If the secret agreements do not include a means for the accused to appeal an unsubstantiated complaint then it is time for whatever serves as a class action suit in Ireland against the RIAA. The copyright holders (RIAA) should be required to pay the ISP's to maintain a department to help subscribers determine if their broadband access has been high jacked. It is obvious that if a business, in this case the RIAA wants to hire a security guard, in this case the ISP, the RIAA should be prepared to pay for the ISP's services.

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It is really dangerous to have the Fox guard the Hen House. If the secret agreements do not include a means for the accused to appeal an unsubstantiated complaint then it is time for whatever serves as a class action suit in Ireland against the RIAA. The copyright holders (RIAA) should be required to pay the ISP's to maintain a department to help subscribers determine if their broadband access has been high jacked. It is obvious that if a business, in this case the RIAA wants to hire a security guard, in this case the ISP, the RIAA should be prepared to pay for the ISP's services.
An independent 3rd party does the actual detecting of copyright violations. The ISP protects the identity of the user of the offending IP addr from the RIAA and just forwards the warning to the offender. 3 times and they are gone. So the ISP outlay would be minimal.
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Re: Who will protect the innocent?

Who is going to pick up the cost to implement this system?

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Who is going to pick up the cost to implement this system?
The independent detecting company's costs will be picked up by the music companies and not the ISP.
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

An independent 3rd party does the actual detecting of copyright violations. The ISP protects the identity of the user of the offending IP addr from the RIAA and just forwards the warning to the offender. 3 times and they are gone. So the ISP outlay would be minimal.
I'm curious where that information comes from. That's not the way it works according to Ars Technica: »arstechnica.com/telecom/news/200···sers.ars
the process is generally understood to need some form of appeal or defense. It's not clear from the reporting coming out of Ireland that the Eircom agreement contains any such provisions. It appears that the music industry hands over its evidence, Eircom evaluates it, and a decision is made. Users, at least for now, seem to be shut out
According to that, the RIAA makes the accusation about the user and presents it to the ISP. There's no independent third party. Wired News also has a similar report: »blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/0···o-b.html
The RIAA's private detectives perform the surveillance on file sharing networks.

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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

An independent 3rd party does the actual detecting of copyright violations. The ISP protects the identity of the user of the offending IP addr from the RIAA and just forwards the warning to the offender. 3 times and they are gone. So the ISP outlay would be minimal.
I'm curious where that information comes from. That's not the way it works according to Ars Technica: »arstechnica.com/telecom/news/200···sers.ars

My sources came from 2 Irish news sources:
»irishdev.com/Home/News/271-eirco···tes.html
»www.siliconrepublic.com/news/art···-pirates
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Re: Who will protect the innocent?

Thanks.

From your first article, it says that the company doing to detecting will be working directly for the music industry.
An independant company working on behalf of the music companies will monitor download piracy with DetecNet, a P2P file sharer and then supply eircom with the IP addresses of all persons who are detected illegally uploading or downloading copyright works on a peer to peer (P2P) basis.

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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

said by Mr Matt See Profile :

It is really dangerous to have the Fox guard the Hen House. If the secret agreements do not include a means for the accused to appeal an unsubstantiated complaint then it is time for whatever serves as a class action suit in Ireland against the RIAA. The copyright holders (RIAA) should be required to pay the ISP's to maintain a department to help subscribers determine if their broadband access has been high jacked. It is obvious that if a business, in this case the RIAA wants to hire a security guard, in this case the ISP, the RIAA should be prepared to pay for the ISP's services.
An independent 3rd party does the actual detecting of copyright violations. The ISP protects the identity of the user of the offending IP addr from the RIAA and just forwards the warning to the offender. 3 times and they are gone. So the ISP outlay would be minimal.
Ya and independent 3rd parties do really good police work.

I suspect the 3rd party will be paid by volume, which in turn will make the 3rd party lax towards false positives, which will allow more false positives than statistically acceptable.

And, what's in it for the ISP? Other than AT&T and Comcast's obvious compliance because they are content providers. Why should an ISP subscribe to this model? All it does is lose them customers and incur paperwork and processing costs.

I postulate ISPs are being PAID for their cooperation with the RIAA. Probably on a per-user disconnected basis. It's the only way I can see a non-content provider ISP wanting to comply.

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I postulate ISPs are being PAID for their cooperation with the RIAA. Probably on a per-user disconnected basis. It's the only way I can see a non-content provider ISP wanting to comply.
The ISP complied because they were losing a lawsuit in court after an 8 day trial and their lawyers saw the handwriting on the wall - so they settled.
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lawsuits?

So how exactly are they suing the isp into cooperating? Maybe twisting some silly socialist eu laws to their favor? Will that slimy tactic work here in the US? Also who is the "third party" involved in spying on users and where are they located?
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so if someone dies cause they cut the phone off

lets say i accuse person a) they get cut off hten they have emergency and die.
WHOSE responsible NOW.
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oh ya and are later FOUND innocent

oh ya and are later FOUND innocent of any wrong doing.

OH are hackers gonna have a field day.......

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lets say i accuse person a) they get cut off hten they have emergency and die.
WHOSE responsible NOW.
though I think this idea is stupid and is doomed to failure one would only get cutt off after their THIRD strike. I would highly doubt someone would be innocnetly accused 3 straight times. I also dont get how someone is going to die without internet.

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Re: so if someone dies cause they cut the phone off

It can happen easily, and hell it happens every day on cable networks. You can buy a fully modded/hacked modem online. All you need to do, is find a Mac Address that is working on another node. Hell, if you can find a business mac address that's working, you can input that into your hacked modem. Take it online, and presto.. Go have fun, downloading until your hearts content.

Don't believe me? »www.tcniso.net/ - »www.roadrunnerguide.com/ - the sites go on and on.

Hackers/Crackers/Pirates - Never use their own connections. So all this crap, is just going to hurt the common consumer like usual.
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Re: so if someone dies cause they cut the phone off

its a lil bit more tedious than that but almost that easy.
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verizon wont

im just glad verizon wont play with them
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at that point

If I lived in Ireland, I would try to get a boycott going.

Or maybe tell every single one of their customers to start downloading from P2P networks out of spite.

I wonder what the ISP will do when they suddenly realize they have to kick literally almost every single one of their customers.

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I think PenTeleData/Blue Ridge Communications have been doing this for the past year or so, not sure exactly.
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