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Large Irish ISP To Enact "Three Strikes" Rule For Copyright Violation
Squeeonline writes "One of the biggest broadband providers in Ireland will make the country the first in the world (according to the broadsheet newspaper the Irish Times) to introduce the 'three strikes' rule. 'Eircom will from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally. Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of graduated response is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who illegally share copyrighted music will get three warnings before having their broadband service cut off for a year.' ... The mechanism by which it operates was challenged in the courts by the Data Protection Commissioner. Apparently, IP addresses do not constitute 'personal information.' Personally, I use filesharing all the time, but I use it to download large open source Linux ISOs. How will Eircom legally differentiate between that content, and the content that some ragamuffin may be downloading illegally, without infringing privacy laws?"
Yeah I almost feel safe making a bet that "formerly one of the biggest ISP's" will become a reality.
Yes, it is! ("Copyright is the set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work.") All creative work is by default copyrighted, even if not marked so. Does the owner care, let others use the work, force copyright, release the copyright to a third party, whatever is up to the copyright owner or owners legal representative but even these lines are owned by me (not very creative but I digress) - not by Slashdot! We don't want Slashdot to be responsible what I write - or do we? And of course, writing the lines here I will allow everyone to use them but they still are copyrighted to me, I just gave a permission to use them by my (kind of) agreement with Slashdot.
Who owns the copyright on the compositions of Bach or Mozart
The Deutsch Recording Association of Germany.
All of the German labels are in DRAG.
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