Communications and networking provider Entanet has waded into last week's ruling by Ireland's High Court (here), where copyright holders tried and failed to force a local broadband ISP (UPC) into adopting a "Three Strikes" system of warning and disconnection for customers suspected of involvement with "illegal" P2P file sharing.


Indeed we too were quite surprised, and concerned, by the detail of last week's ruling in which it became quite clear that the presiding Judge, Peter Charleton, had failed to recognise the well known fallibility of using Internet Protocol ( IP ) addresses as evidence to identify an infringing individual.

These serious problems, which make it almost impossible to be absolutely sure who is committing the offence itself, have repeatedly been ignored by politicians too. Disconnection cannot work while the correct identity of an infringing individual remains so difficult to ascertain with any certainty. Sadly this doesn't appear to concern those who actually make government policy.