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Old 06-23-2009, 07:21 AM   #11 (permalink)
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The biggest drawback is also the most obvious in that it is technically illegal. It’s not illegal to the point that several armed officers are going to break down your door as you’re sleeping and drag you away, although that has been the case for a few individuals, who’s incarceration or fining has made them into a type of martyr.
what has happened here is, that Eircom(the largest national internet provider) has willfully put inplace a 3 strikes policy, which will block a persons use of the internet entirely, for people suspected by the IRMA(Irish Recorded Music Association) to have been participating in file sharing of music. The main reason for them to implement this policy was that IRMA threatened to sue eircom.
I'm not sure how strictly eircom is enforcing this policy, but I certainly haven't heard of anybodies internet access being withdrawn, part of this may have to do with the fact that the competing ISPs haven't got such a policy to begin with, and therefore it would give eircome a distinct competitive disadvantage.
Now IRMA is suing other ISP's... Having forced one Irish ISP to adopt three strikes rules, labels sue to force others to match policy | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com
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