Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, will reportedly start blocking its customers from accessing file-sharing sites, solely at the behest of the music industry. According to the Sunday Business Post, the Irish equivalent of the RIAA, the Irish Recorded Music Industry, has been threatening the country’s ISPs with legal action if they don’t do the same. And [...]
First: apologies for the long delay between posts. I was on vacation. Now, to the topic at hand: should ISPs be forced to monitor traffic on their networks in order to prevent piracy? Internet service providers are increasingly the target of the frustrated entertainment industry, which sees no effective technology solution to the problem of [...]