Music-Swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs

An anonymous reader writes "Irish internet users are to be blocked from accessing music swapping websites, as internet service providers bow to pressure from the music industry. Eircom, the country's biggest internet provider, is to start blocking its internet customers from accessing music swapping."

Re:NYCL

[Anonymous Coward]

There, I corrected it for you.

:)

Re:Meanwhile in financial news...

[Nazlfrag]

In other news, a huge spike in sales of VPN services was reported.

Re:"Music swapping"?

[dna_(c)(tm)(r)]

I won't go into explaining the difference between a hypothetical "music swapping" site and a tracker. Insert here gun, car and other analogies.

So, basically, it's like Fannie and Freddie are angry because you drive your car way to fast in front of their subprime real estate and then hatch an evil plan to bring down the entire car industry. Awesome!

Oh no

[Goffee71]

How will I get all those denim-clad, teen-spirited, Bewitched classics now?

Re:Useless

[MichaelSmith]

Proxy demand increasing in Ireland in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

I should start a business selling proxy services to Irish internet users. My connection will never be filtered in Australia.

Re:Worse than useless.

[sakdoctor]

We could trade files right here on slashdot.

Bit of steganography and we could hide music in our rambling car analogy loaded posts.

Re:Rapidshare?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody Expects the RIAA!
Out chief weapons are suprise... Surprise and idiocy...

Re:I can haz censorship?

[GauteL]

"pretty soon the only thing you'll be able to post on the internet will be cat pictures. :("

How dare you?? Don't you know that underneath all that fur, those cats are completely naked?

Re:Worse than useless.

[digitig]

Do you have a car analogy for that?

Re:Why do the music cartels have so much influence

[sakdoctor]

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in .com.fr,
we shall fight on the web and on usenet,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internet, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the servers,
we shall fight on port 443,
we shall fight in the VPNs and on P2P,
we shall fight in the darknets;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Internet or a large part of it were subjugated and censored, then our digital Anarchy beyond the web, armed and guarded by thepiratebay fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in good time, the New Internet, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

Re:Rapidshare?

[EvilIdler]

Have they blocked *other users*? That is where the shared data is ACTUALLY coming from.

Re:Worse than useless.

[HailSatan]

I can't believe this comment has the only instance of the word "drunk" in reply to an article about Irish people making stupid decisions

Re:Are you from Ireland?

[elrous0]

Do you have any idea how much money it takes each day just to feed a single U2 band member's ego? That's not chump change, my friend.

Re:Useless

[hyk]

As an Australian, this makes me laugh, and also cry.