While the unlikely alliance of Lily Allen and Peter Mandelson seek to wage war on naughty, naughty illegal downloaders, a new survey suggests illegal file-grabbers may actually be music’s greatest friends. Read on to discover why…
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P2P filesharing sites will soon be nigh on unaccessible in Ireland: the country’s largest ISP, Eircom has just announced it will be banning P2P sites sharing pirated content, with other ISPs being asked to follow suit.
ISPs won’t be forced to disconnect music pirates, according to government Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy.
in an interview with The Times, the MP said the Government had scrapped the idea of making ISPs cut off suspect P2P pirates, which Westminster was mooting as late as 2008.
UPDATE: It’s come to our attention that the Pirate Bay and Pirate City are unrelated – though it doesn’t make the news any less damaging to the studios. Tsk, tsk…
This will send movie studios into anti-piracy meltdown. The Pirate Bay just launched their movie streaming site, serving up full pirated films in a browser, without the need to download a single BitTorrent file.