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Irish ISP Eircom Blocks Sites Hosting Illegal File Sharing Links

This is very dangerous. What gives the music biz the right to decide what sites are available to the customers of any ISP?

Logically, any ISP might decide this looks like a great idea and refuse customers access to any sites THEY deem unacceptable - for example a competing product or one they don't want people to acccess (BBC Iplayer for example) - all with little or no comeback for the customer.

Of course they could charge the site in question for being removed from the banned list.....

Then the gobvernment (that was initially a typo, but actually I decided to keep it) could easily add their own list of sites to censor.

This is a slippery slope.
 
If a site is illegal then legal action should be taken by the companies involved, it is not up to the ISP to play a pseudo policeman. :hrmph:
 
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If a site is illegal then legal action should be taken by the companies involved, it is not up to the ISP to play a pseudo policeman. :hrmph:

Or indeed to confer responsibility for policing the Internet to anyone other than the courts.
 
well they will have 2 block google too because if you put in torrents it supplys you with plenty of torrent sites.....
 
well they will have 2 block google too because if you put in torrents it supplys you with plenty of torrent sites.....

So? The fact that Google links to the sites is irrelevant. An ISP can simply stop you from accessing that site when you click on the Google link.
 
So? The fact that Google links to the sites is irrelevant. An ISP can simply stop you from accessing that site when you click on the Google link.

Ah, but what about Google's and other search engines' option to view cached pages though?
 
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A cached page won't let you start a torrent up. (will it ?)
 
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