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IFPI Turning To Lawsuits

Posted by kdawson on from the taking-a-hint-from-across-the-pond dept.

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."

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  1. "Turning" to Lawsuits? Come Now by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative

    IFPI Turning To Lawsuits To say the IFPI is turning to lawsuits is like saying Bob Dylan is turning to drugs. It's an organization of lawyers! What else do they do?!

    I recall them dishing out 2100 lawsuits at once in 2005 and 8000 lawsuits at once in 2006! And evidence that it's been going on since 2004.

    You might be able to convince me that the IFPI is getting smarter (or stupider, depending on your views) at stopping file sharing by targeting ISPs with lawsuits but to say they're only now with litigating to stop these losses is ignorant.
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  2. These people need to crawl in a hole somwhere. by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These people are ripping apart the infrastructure of one of Human kind's greatest achivements over their petty squabble. I'm really sick of it, and it would be easier if these people just got the hell off our planet. Fuck thesse people. Fuck the DMCA, Fuck the IFPI, fuck the EUCD, fuck it. I'm sick of these monsters that want to drag us down into the dark ages with their greed. Its just sick.

  3. Re:So all traffic should be banned by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok then clever clogs.
    How do you know what is illicit and what is allowed?

    Is the content of the website you are downloaded owned by (for instance) perfect 10?
    Have I given permission to YOU to download a css stylesheet I designed for use on my website?

    Is the Code in the software update you are getting copyrighted to the person you are getting it from?

    Did the original rights owner give you permission to distribute that mp3 file to your IM friend?

    the list is endless.
    Without knowledge of what is illicit and what is allowed you might as well block the whole lot.

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