He did, and he also admitted, “he doesn’t really understand it” I think i remember the guy from boeards.ie hammering him at a open forum.

no matter he is not there to understand he is there to implement what our real leaders want,, the internet is a threat to them, so it must be diluted, restricted etc, can’t have the peasants having access to info that may cause them to rise up!!!!

No. Not entirely true. What Sean Serlock did was rephrase Irish copyright law to allow copyright holders (eg EMI) to force ISPs (like UPC and Eircom) to block internet access to those who breach copyright law. This all steamed from a court case between UPC and EMI where Justice Charleton ruled in favour of UPC because “”legislative response laid down in our country…has made no proper provision for the blocking, diverting or interrupting of internet communications intent on breaching copyright”.

On a completely different side of things. Ireland signed an agreement to enact ACTA into Irish law (SOPA is an American bill and does not apply in Ireland) if it was signed off by the European Union. However it was not signed off because the EU felt the law was a in breech of Human rights. So ACTA is in fact dead.

With all this being said, Eircom still uses the questionable 3 strikes rule (which was deemed a breach of data protection) and UPC doesn’t.

The battle of the Internet is well underway!

Proxies?

http://www.hidemyass.com/

http://www.openproxy.co.uk
http://www.proxyuk.org
and http://www.daveproxy.co.uk all work too. They can be a bit slow at times though. If one doesn’t work, you can always try the other, or the one mentioned by Biggins.

Yours sincerely,
Eircom customer and pirate bay user.

what you forget is the choice of users to use the internet without it being censored and free from repercussions. it’s not the domain of the big corporate to impose their will on to the little people.
who after all isn’t the real problem. if EMi. Sony whoever has a dispute with a web site let them resolve it without the help of idiots like Sherlock.

Thats exactly what i’m not forgetting. These companies like sony, paramount et al don’t care about things like wiki leaks, political censorship etc, they just want to protect their product (which really isn’t unreasonable). These companies employ a lot of people and generate a lot of money so they have the ear of the politicans. The politicans then have their weapons in place ie SOPA to go after what they want rid of off the internet and can use the excuse that those laws which were protecting the music,film, software industries now have ‘other uses’.
If someone uses the freedom of choice that we still have on the internet to do something wrong ie steal then they are being very shortsighted.