Eircom to cut broadband over illegal downloads
Found on Irish Times on Sunday, 23 May 2010
Eircom will from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally.
It is understood that, during the pilot phase, Eircom has agreed to process about 50 IP addresses a week. Irma is using a third-party firm, Dtecnet, to identify Eircom customers who are sharing, and not simply downloading, a specific list of its members' copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks.
So basically, the music industry picks some IP and blames the person behind it without having to deliver any proof at all. Of course they will be 100% correct; it's not like the indsutry has ever made mistakes, like, let's say, sueing the dead or people without Internet access.