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Pulling the plug is not the answer

  • 31 May 2010
  • 1

Dr. Richard Tynan and I have a piece in Saturday’s Irish Examiner discussing the implications of Eircom’s “phased disconnection” scheme. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be on their website, so here’s the full text: Pulling the plug is not the answer Earlier this week Eircom …

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Music industry pushing for internet filtering as well as “three strikes” – what can you do about it?

  • 26 Feb 2009
  • 16

Looks like we got it wrong. When we wrote about the deal between Eircom and the music industry we believed (as the early reports seemed to say) that it only involved a “three strikes” system and that the daft notion of internet filtering was off …

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Department of Justice continues tradition of secrecy on data retention

  • 10 Feb 2009
  • 2

You might have noticed Karlin Lillington’s story in the Irish Times today about the Department of Justice’s new proposals on data retention. To make a long story short, it turns out that the Attorney General was not impressed with its remarkable plans to change the …

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23 Filesharers to be Identified – But Concerns Remain

  • 07 Jun 2007
  • 3

The “fight against piracy” trundles along with news that IRMA have obtained another High Court order requiring ISPs to identify 23 subscribers who are accused of filesharing. As usual, we can’t condone illegal filesharing (though we should point out that this is just one of …

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New IRMA Legal Action

  • 20 Oct 2006
  • 8

As before DRI support copyright holders’ efforts to protect and assert their rights. However the way in which IRMA has done so still leaves a number of questions unanswered. …

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Irish Times article on technology and consumers’ rights

  • 10 Jul 2006
  • 0

Many thanks to Davin O’Dwyer who has an article in today’s Irish Times setting out our concerns about issues such as fair use, private copying rights, and more: Whether it’s listening to music on iPods, talking on our mobile phones or surfing the web, most …

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ISPs Ordered to hand over user details – users not notified of case or given chance to make submissions

  • 25 Jan 2006
  • 14

The High Court yesterday made an order requiring ISPs to hand over details of 49 alleged filesharers to the music industry. After the first such order, in July 2005, we expressed concern about the procedure which had been adopted. When we learnt about this …

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Keeping Your Rights In An Information Age

  • 06 Dec 2005
  • 3

Digital Rights Ireland (DRI), a new group aiming to “Protect Civil, Legal and Human Rights in a Digital Age”, was launched on Tuesday 6th December 2005 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin. Digital Rights Ireland is chaired by UCD Law Lecturer TJ McIntyre and is comprised of …

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IRMA’s Legal Action

  • 16 Nov 2005
  • 19

IRMA announced, with a media blitz on 15th November, that they intend to send letters to 50 new individuals and companies demanding damages for losses they claim have been caused by these people making files available for download. We don’t yet know the full details …

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