IFPI Turning To Lawsuits

Sherman's doppleganger writes "The IFPI (the "European RIAA") has made a lot of noise about filtering this year, but it looks as though 2008 is instead becoming the year of the lawsuit. The IFPI has now sued an Irish ISP in an attempt to keep copyrighted content off of its network. 'The lawsuit accuses Eircom of abetting illegal downloading by allowing copyrighted material to traverse its network unimpeded. The IFPI... wants the ISP to start filtering traffic to scrub all illicitly uploaded and downloaded copyrighted material on its network.' The lawsuit comes less than a week after an Israeli court forced the nation's three biggest ISPs to block access to HttpShare.com."

Comments

httpshare.com?

[WK2]

I never heard of httpshare.com. After reading the summary, I went to the website, to see what it was. I still don't know what it is, because it is in Hebrew. However, in plain English, they mention that they upgraded their servers, and they thank IFPI for the free advertising.

Re:So all traffic should be banned

[fireman sam]

root@gateway.eircom.com.eu# ifconfig ppp0 down
root@gateway.eircom.com.eu# exit

Re:So all traffic should be banned

[Alexx K]

We tried asking the ISP to pay a 5 Euro levy per kilobyte to cover the costs of its users downloading copyrighted content. As you already know, the ISP refused, so we must resort to the proffitable$wnasty business of suing to get our way.

Cheers and hope you live in Europe,
IFPI

Re:These people need to crawl in a hole somwhere.

[aproposofwhat]

Home taping is killing music, you insensitive clod!

Don't you remember the stickers from the 70s?