Irish ISP Wins Major Legal Victory Against Record Companies

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 11, 2010 @05:50AM from the just-say-no dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The High Court in Dublin ruled today that there was no precedent in Irish law to force ISPs to identify and disconnect people accused of illegally downloading copyrighted files. The court case was spurred by objections to the recording industry's three-strikes system from Irish internet provider UPC. Earlier this year, Eircom, one of Ireland's other large ISPs, gave in and implemented the system, as we discussed previously. This resulted in many of the more 'technical' users leaving that ISP in droves. Nice to see an ISP willing to take a stand."

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Re:Now why is it by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-11 06:28 · Score: 0, Troll

It's called corporate personhood. It extends the principles of the free market to government.
Re:Economics by Falconhell · 2010-10-11 10:18 · Score: 0, Troll

Interesting how the bastion of free market porpaganda has much less choice of ISP than
overegulated, socialist Australia.
I can choose from at least a dozen providers, for ADSL2 here.
No bank bailouts were needed here.
We dont allow idiots to have guns either.