We all know that IRMA does not have the law behind them, they just hit Eircom and Eircom being wimps caved in, IRMA thought they could bluff the rest of the ISP's and now they have revolted.

HAH.

Lets see them drag all the ISP's to court. teehee

Viva the revolution!

Good job Irish ISPs! Stick it to 'em.

It's the sound of IRMA getting bitch slapped. Bravo to companies with backbone.

"You cannot conquer Ireland - you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom" - Padraig Pearse.

Well done ISPs. Ireland says No :)

How the 3 strikes rule is legal in France and not against either European rules and even the French Constitution...

;)

Fucking ace. Seriously.

Ha!

God bless Irish ISPs for having a sense of fucking integrity.

<3

Cheers.

Paris, three strokes and you're out.

Polishing PR value of the statement. Notice the part about jobs, completely irrelevent but great press. It will help put pressure on MPs to tell IRMA where to stick it.

They bloody took their time- but at least its a credible response from the ISPs.

IRMA and the international recording industry have to accept that times have changed.

They received a lifeline with the advent of the CD- where consumers at large were happy to duplicate their tape and vinyl collections, on yet another format at hyped prices. They had their chance to do the same with MP3s and fluffed it. How many times do they expect consumers to pay for the same collections again and again? I thought the argument was that the delivery method was immaterial- that you were paying for a personal license to enjoy the tracks. Hell- I've got at least 4 personal licenses for one of U2s early albums by that measure.

How about free MP3s of any albums you can prove you already have on tape, vinyl or CD- it would have made an interesting business model- and would not have painted the record industry into the corner they are now in.........

I have very little sympathy for IRMA and its international partners. Their current hurt is largely self inflicted.

All the ISPs should agree to stop all Music companies from accessing the Internet.

Either throttle their speeds down to 2400baud or stop serving the scum.

But it is about time they did something...

We ISPs (and the search sites) just love making money out of the extra internet pipes and advertising we can flog out as a result of piracy and we're certainly not going to do anything to stop it if we can possibly avoid it.

Now if only the rest of the world would stick it to the recording industry.!

Someone actually stood up to the bullies. Good.

Why can't I have two icons? I want the thumbs up AND the smiley face

Common sence and ISP combined.. the world must be comming to an end....

*The one with the Vault 101 Survival guide in the pocket*

.... if their ISP's aren't mere puppets to the music industry's whims. It almost sounds too good to be true. Next they'll be saying that ISPs in ireland dont ftp all their logs to teh government uberdatabase, and that they don't then sell those logs to google for behavioural ad targeting. and that they don't use transcoders either....

wheres the catch? unless the top speed is 5 KBP/s I'm packing my bags.

Hopefully, it'll only be a short time before the UK subsidiaries of those companies stand up and say the same thing.

As a UPC Ireland customer I'm very glad to hear that they're not going to blindly roll over like Eircom did.

Good to see Irish ISP's are not allowing themselves to be bullied by greedy record companies and their appointed henchmen. Let's hope UK ISP's take note and do likewise.

FO

Ha Ha

"ISPAI is disappointed that the great potential of the internet, to provide opportunities to connect with users in new ways and develop new business models, is being missed by the music recording industry."

You tell 'em dudes :-)

Majority of Irish ISP's grow a pair.

And in related news.

Eirecom customer base evaporates over night.

God bless 'em indeed. That's put a smile on my face.

Eircom excepted.

Fantastic news. I would have liked them to say a bit more, along the lines of

" ... Handing arbitrary and unaccountable pseudo-judicial powers to an unelected group of private individuals for the purposes of furthering their own personal financial interests is an abhorrence to everything we understand by the constitution of this country and an insult to democracy and we are disgusted by your repugnant attempt to twist justice to your own ends at the expense of the rights of the people and will resist any such attempt to undermine and replace our system of government with what would amount to a neo-feudalism ... "

http://www.kerryman.ie/news/your-computer-is-at-the-mercy-of-hackers-1660476.html

For added irony, search for "Eircom" on The Pirate Bay.