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stranded

5:48 AM on 30 March, 2009

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That's good, but any comments about cheaper and better (more serious) products? We are not in medieval ages, when the landlords had absolute power, or we are.

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Gordon394

8:11 AM on 30 March, 2009

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That's all they wrote - for now...

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Ben 3

10:07 AM on 30 March, 2009

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Virgin never introduced a 'three strikes' policy. Even your article admits that!

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Ed

10:33 AM on 30 March, 2009

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Don't see the problem with the proposal, at least on principle. It's not some god given right that we have Internet access and it's worth trying a number of different measures to put people of illegal file sharing - there's seldom a legitimate excuse, people. That said, I'm still glad to see this being rejected as it would be a complete waste of money as it's near impossible to implement.

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mobies

11:23 AM on 30 March, 2009

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IT will be interesting to see if this changes the disgraceful agreement between Eircom, Ireland’s telecom incumbent and the IRMA (Irish RIAA). Eircom has already agreed to remove Internet access from households with no more than a request from IRMA, no proof or due process required.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0128/download.html

IRMA has being useing this agreement to put pressure on all the other IRISH ISPs, to do the same or face lawsuits.

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Hallainzil

2:11 PM on 30 March, 2009

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IRMA have already had their asses handed to them in regards to an earlier three-strikes policy implemented by Eircom.

It won't take long for the same to happen on that. No other ISP has said they will even take IRMA's phone calls.

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Gordon394

2:13 PM on 30 March, 2009

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@Ben - didn't say Virgin did Ben, read more closely - I said they TRIALLED it,

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MadMacs

3:04 PM on 30 March, 2009

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Are you getting commision from Spotify Gordon? You never miss a good plug! - If so, I want in! Because it's grrrrreat!

www.spotify.com - a world of music, instant, simple & FREE!

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Gordon394

3:22 PM on 30 March, 2009

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@Shaun - haha, I wish but you're right - it is superb. Sustainability is the key though and that will be a major challenge in the time to come. Furthermore should iTunes/Amazon adopt a similar model it could squish them.

Funnily enough I've a Spotify story going live today ;)

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Ben

5:05 PM on 30 March, 2009

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That Ben isn't me btw... not that you can tell. I wish you'd make names unique on your comments system! I'm Ben as registered on the forums.

The three strikes thing was ridiculous. You can't disconnect a whole household due to the activities of one person IMHO, especially when the 'proof' is so vague and questionably obtained. No. Better, fairer solutions to piracy will come in time - that, or better digital distribution models will finally push piracy out of the mainstream.

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Gordon394

5:21 PM on 30 March, 2009

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@Ben - good idea and don't worry, we know. In the back-end we can see the (unpublished) email address of each contributor so for now at least we can spot you apart ;)

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Ohmz

5:53 PM on 30 March, 2009

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@ Ben, perhaps have a unique Internet name instead like some of us do? :)

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Enigma

10:53 PM on 31 March, 2009

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Is the fact that Sarkozy's wife is a singer and he has friends etc who are in the music business have anything to do with his enthusiasm for his anti-piracy stand?

Spotify is okay but its nothing to write home about. The repeat and random selection options either in the menu or the tool bar doesn't work for me. Try searching for Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack, Dr Dolittle 3 etc I couldn't get anything on these.

Still its FREEish if you can live with the annoying ads.

What we need is the audio and video equivalents of Firefox, Wiki, Office Org etc. Thus we shall be well on the way to the world of Star Trek - no money needed and hey no Bankers and hey no credit crunch! Now that's how you make poverty history. In the words of Sam Cook we then have a wonderful world.....

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DMG

4:21 PM on 1 April, 2009

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I'm not apposed to implementing punishment on internet users, so I don't think the premise of the idea is ridiculous. But not with regards to file sharing. I think that computers involved in DOS (denial of service) attacks should have fines imposed on their internet service providers, who can then pass on the fines to the users. This would prompt users to take security seriously, hire experts if you don't know the first thing about securing your pc, and allow insurance companies to get involved here.

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