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Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access

Posted by Unknown on from the whack-a-mole dept.

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Ireland's own SOPA Act has finally struck home. Today, the Irish High Court ordered all ISPs to begin censoring the The Pirate Bay. After earlier attempts were struck down, this case was brought by EMI, Sony, Warner Music and Universal music under new copyright laws brought in last year. This follows the largest ISP Eircom already having voluntarily blocked the Pirate Bay after previous legal action. Despite some early indications that some ISPs would appeal the decision, it now appears that like Eircom, they have quietly given up. Pity; IT was one of the few industries Ireland was getting right."

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  1. Re:Making it harder to pirate? by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the downloads on TPB are legal.

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  2. Serioulsy how fucking hard by future+assassin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    can it be to take the lawyer money and build the damn distribution websites aleady. If people with no money can do it in their spare time, I guess the answer is the studios dont want to. Then WTF are you in the business for? Seriosuly are these mother fucker so out of touch with reality?

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    1. Re:Serioulsy how fucking hard by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I guess the answer is the studios dont want to.

      correct.

      Then WTF are you in the business for?

      They believe they're in business to maximize their profits, not to make customers happy. Now, a good business functioning in a free market would accomplish both at the same time, but the *AA get to rest on copyright instead, effectively calling in the government's guns to enforce their stupid business model.

      And guess who's subsidizing that stupid business model by paying for those men in guns? That's right, the same people who are getting hosed at the other end.

      We probably either ought to give up our taste for pre-recorded entertainment or our system of government. Or maybe both.

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  3. Re:Making it harder to pirate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its pretty hard to find any downloads on the PirateBay.
    Since they don't host anything..

  4. Precedents, not specifics by intermodal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm more concerned with the precedent this could set than with specifically seeing the government block TPB.

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