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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.'"
create work A.
get annoying little brother to send A to company X (but bully him a bit, so he'll never admit that he did it, or you forced him)
Go to court over X illegally holding A.
the work A could be a simple poem, that your brother posts on their tech support site or forums, where it's available to anyone.
At least in Denmark, where i get a note saying "STOP the police are not logging this (yeah right)" even read any of the pirate bay subdomains (*.thepiratebay.org).
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
Younger Americans probably have a rosy view of the old sod - for 50years post 1923 it was a theocratic state with strong (at times overt) fascist tendencies (remember the famous 1945 telegram) supported by remittances from those working in the hated UK. It was only saved by billions of EU money - good to see that it is now reverting back to form.