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Irish ISP To Block Access To Pirate Bay
flynn writes "Ireland's oldest and largest ISP will be blocking access to The Pirate Bay from September 1st, while other ISPs have rejected the request to block TPB. From the Irish Times: 'Under an out-of-court agreement with EMI Records, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warners in January, Eircom agreed to cut off customers found to be repeatedly downloading music illegally. The deal also required Eircom to cut off access to Pirate Bay if requested. Yesterday, cable TV operator UPC, which has more than 120,000 broadband subscribers, announced it would not comply with a request to block access to Pirate Bay.'"
ummmm. seems like you are anti TPB there....all the guy was saying is that everyon is jumping on the bandwagon that if it is torrent then it must be illegal, and that just because EMI or RIAA says that what you downloaded was illegal, then they better have proof, and most of the times they don't...they don't even bother to download the torrent themselves to see if the contents are truly what it is supposed to be. ...they use the names of the torrents or scan for a digital signature whithin the torrent (watermark) which resembles their own.
However, I can easily reproduce the watermarks they use and plant them within all files being downloaded at TPB. This would force them to then change their way of discovering if there is really illegal downloading going on. If I have also a family of say 30 and plant a nice big family album dvd of pics and videos on the torrents so that my family can get to them, and I name it Terminator2....would you like to bet on how quickly I would be flagged for having illegal downloads happening because my torrent has the same name as a movie.
As for all TPB downloads being illegal, it shows you do not use it yourself, 90% is a bit high to say that all that is there is illegal, where did you come up with this number...might I ask? Pull it out of your thinking cap?