Music-Swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs

An anonymous reader writes "Irish internet users are to be blocked from accessing music swapping websites, as internet service providers bow to pressure from the music industry. Eircom, the country's biggest internet provider, is to start blocking its internet customers from accessing music swapping."

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"swapping"

[cliffski]

Nice attempt at spin, but when you copy music from someone else that isn't swapping, unless you automatically delete your copy.
Its copying, and with copyrighted music, its copyright infringement. Renaming it 'swapping' is just a silly piece of spin that holds no water with the law, nor should it.